My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.