What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

The bad boy: always more fun.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.

Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I'm a child of the Sixties.

I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

God controls every circumstance.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!