Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of ….

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found..

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understan….

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities..

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in….

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty re….

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. ….

I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kickin….

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls..

I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It ….

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body..

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That ….

I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or f….

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it..

If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put ….

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the pers….

Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!.

Freedom is the kind of essence of being a pirate: You're away from land-locked Europe. You're not part of the society. You're part of the brotherhood….

Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot ….

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particula….

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form..