In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just u….

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be….

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if….

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk..

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel..

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful..

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult..

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens..

On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, ….

No one needs to feel sorry for me or anyone else who has fallen victim to success..

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be….

Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms..

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career'….

I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it for an audience. The more the me….

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've l….

It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point….

There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was sugg….

I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fu….

Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken….

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you d….

The audience's expectations are ever-present..