The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

To know you are in the company with people who love and care for each other, as well as for whatever they are working on, is almost essential.

I’ve often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneaththe loving hands of two heartbroken children.

Oh, comfortable cocoa!

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.