He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming.

What is life without the radiance of love?

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

If the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.