All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

The 60s had completely changed how people conceived of their lives and their habits and their identities.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

I never get afraid of things. I only get excited.

If you are at a boys' school, especially, there is a level of bravado that you have to keep up otherwise you'll get picked on.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'