Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky..

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it..

Some nights you might go through an entire performance and not feel a thing, and the audience may have a much better time, 'cause if you're enjoying ….

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short..

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page sunrise over the desert and masses of a whole essay before y….

I've had no ­contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God ….

I think Julianne Moore is very, very good. I've worked with her. We did Surviving Picasso. I remember one scene we did together. She had to have a ne….

As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir - the Master Choir of them all. If I coul….

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a….

We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all t….

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept eve….

I love life because what more is there?.

I still don't know what the film was about because all I remember is a whole lot of technical dialogue about a body in a suitcase..

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in st….

My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as h….

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night..

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life..

Non-expectation and acceptance. Because expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations..

Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is….

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension..

My life is not my own business..