And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Having a daughter and a grandson, I certainly could relate to the fact that this child, who you simply dote on, being taken away from you at an early age, and every single kind of emotion you would have to go through.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

Every experience that you experience yourself you use, because that's our craft.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.