If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

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.