What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.

I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

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

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.

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

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.