It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.