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

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.

I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.

When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.

I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.