I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.