The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.