Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky..

Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of ….

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built..

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination..

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of….

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved ac….

I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like th….

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five w….

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommende….

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the….

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those d….

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great class….

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people a….

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wa….

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an olde….

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge o….

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have t….

I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character….

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another..

My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by….

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him..