I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."