I have never felt bereft of anything.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.