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

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

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