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I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it's like he's stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.

I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard.

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just determined to see if I could build a career for myself.

The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

People think that direct address was invented by Ferris Bueller, but in fact, it wasn't. It was invented by Shakespeare.

If you go out eight times and play tennis eight times this week, yeah, it's the same rules, but it's a different game every time you're out on that court. You're working on a different part of your game every time you're out on that court; your partner's working on a different part of their game, and the act of being watched changes it.

Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.

I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

What hasn't surprised me is that audiences, as we found starting with box sets, want control, to decide how they watch it. Appointment viewing is slowly being put slightly behind.

I don't watch rugby.