The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

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.

I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.