You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.