If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

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.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

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.

We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.