I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

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.

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

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.