I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.
I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.