There's so much crap talked about acting.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.