My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

I spent two years in the military service, then I trudged around in repertory for quite a while. I somehow wound up at the National Theatre, though, and then I was definitely on my way.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

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.