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So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams ... pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

What takes us back to the past are the memories.
What brings us forward is our dreams.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Could a father not marry his son?

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.