Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

The devil is more interesting than God.

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.