I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

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.

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

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.

Online personal branding is not about self-promotion... it's about transferring your real world reputation into the online world.

We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.

... everyone must play his role.

Never touch another man's button.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul.

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

To a certain extent. I'm a fan of rehearsal on the day [of the shoot], more than getting together a week beforehand.