Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours and we feel that they're phoney, but we do it because the director asks for it, that's the one that they pick in the cutting room. And I contend that when you see a movie with bad acting, don't blame the actor... blame those guys in the cutting room because they like that take.