If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

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'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

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.

Guilt is the thief of life.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.