I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said "well, she wasn't alienating." And Weigel said "No, no, no. Why, Lotte Lenya was so true - who cares?" She said: "Berti only developed the theory of alienation in order to stop bad acting." I heard her say that. Now that's brilliant.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.