You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.
Have you noticed. . . there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
I don't in any way believe that I'm special.
We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.
When people come together, they become much more productive.