I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.