You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?
I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.
People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.
I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.
It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.