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'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 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 didn't go to drama school because, from the first refusal I then, as I said, a couple of weeks later, was offered a professional job, where I am im….

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was ….

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we bo….

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving..

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to ….

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 ….

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate..

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous..

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child..

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

I'm open to any project, but my joyful projects are those through which I can say something and through which I can speak to the an audience of peopl….

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play..

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

I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read intervi….

Millions of children are disempowered and we need to empower them..

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence..

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insis….

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities..