A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.