Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the character, and unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in doing it.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.