My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally….

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreamin….

The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End, and to learn their lines. The old timers used to say….

I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's to….

My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notio….

When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in th….

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor..

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore..

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me..

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God….

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play..

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actre….

It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know..