My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

There's no sex in Middle Earth.

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.

It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.

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