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.

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

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

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.