It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

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.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.

I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.