We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

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

Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.