As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.