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.

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.