I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the o….

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you..

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death..

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors..

I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting ou….

The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an actin….

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic..

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word..

But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh..

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour..

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder..

I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all o….

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job..

I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked….

You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, t….

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent..

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now..

I don't honestly think people know what acting is..

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisibl….

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that..

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out….