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

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him..

I cannot pretend i am not without fear..

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances i….

Some things a lady doesn't tell..

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My….

The things that motivate human beings, they don't change, emotionally..

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish….

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 skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole chara….

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it..

Oh, am I wearing an ascot? I didn't notice..

My character is called The Hunter. He's the main antagonist in the movie. In a nutshell, he's a slightly deranged natural born killer who's weirdly d….

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves..

Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've alwa….

The most important thing as a comic and a writer is to have a strong point of view. I have one and can recognise it in others which is why I can writ….

I didn't not perform..

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character..

Really good acting is not about dialogue. It's really just about small moments that really make the whole entire scene and the intention completely d….

To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't..