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

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

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.

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

The reward is in the doing of it.

I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see it all cut together and all of those precious little pieces you put in are maybe on the cutting room floor. So, you don’t have that much control. You have very little control, in fact.