I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.

A man can convince anyone hes someone else but never himself.

Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

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