If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

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.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

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

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away. I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives. I feed off that and work off that. I don't like to be too prepared, no. However we define too prepared, if I feel it's getting that way, then I'll back off. My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.