Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.