You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Guilt is the thief of life.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.