I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine..

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn'….

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own e….

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential..

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was C….

Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + J….

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if ….

I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay..

In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them..

I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to….

I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of chara….

Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy..

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable….

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job..

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsa….

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true..

Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you di….

When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was….

For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know autom….

There's no sex in Middle Earth..