What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.