You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

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.

You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

Getting old ain't for the faint of heart.