The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.