You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right n….

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory….

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have….

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies..

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work..

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age..

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to….

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable..

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around ….

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance..

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people..

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reacti….

In cinema, the leading player is the director..

I don't do anything that would ever come across as advice or suggestion, but it's just part of a debate. Like, "I would like to try this," or "Let me….

The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the ex….

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting..

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to ha….

When Attenborough asked me to do Gandhi it was almost like stepping off one boat and stepping on to another, even though both boats are going at 60 m….

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years..

If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 m….

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….