How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.

I just can't tell you what fun I've had being a member of the world's second oldest profession.

Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don't think life has very much meaning.

I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.