I'm not a royal family watcher..

With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything becau….

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing..

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves..

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called..

I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic..

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see..

I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projectio….

I do think 3D has seriously improved, since I was a boy. It's fabulous..

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage..

I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea o….

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas..

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether y….

I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like..

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career..

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attemp….

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a hal….

I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, other….

Somebody asked me recently, 'Have you done a lot of plays?' I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I've been very fortunate that on sever….

I really have no interest in delivering the iambic pentameter, I just want to kill myself. I don't mind other people doing it. I say that, but really….

When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The r….