I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don't want to just retire. No, I enjoy it all and you just keep going until the day comes when you can't do it anymore. And that's what I want to do.

The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.