The reward is in the doing of it..

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's mo….

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare.….

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry..

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly..

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have ….

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery..

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone..

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and….

I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make refer….

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of u….

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still..

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor..

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the r….

I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, a….

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, a….

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams..

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness ….

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up..

When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony o….

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college..