The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don't want to just retire. No, I enjoy it all and you just keep going until the day comes when you can't do it anymore. And that's what I want to do.

I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.

People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.