I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.