Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

With that incredible voice that he [Alan Rickman] could play like a sort of wonderful instrument, like a cello or something. He played his voice, and he could be the most subtle of actors. And he could also be quite a big actor. He could do the grandiose performances as well.

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

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.

What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job is being able to inhabit worlds that you are never going to inhabit personally.

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult.