The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility..

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance….

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents..

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994.

An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, ….

I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me..

Styling is designing for obsolescence..

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of o….

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve..

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing ….

Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vice….

Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll n….

We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of hereti….

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor..

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one..

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk..

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life..

My contribution to film has always been negligible..

That's no moon. It's a space station..

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study..