A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.