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

Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

I'd like to wake up and look like Brad Pitt in the morning, but I don't. I look in the mirror, and I see me.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

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.