As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

You know, you have to allow life to play itself out, don't you? And one thing you learn is that it doesn't stop. It moves on.

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.