A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number of actors who had played Richard III in the past. And I was hoping of course, that one of them or all of them were gonna give me the magic key, the secret way in to play Richard III but none of them did that.But every one of them did say the following, "Be careful."

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

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.