"You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film—you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you liv…"

"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence—the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with…"

"The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contai…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"His bright spirits and kindly genial ways, the outward expression of a soul which combined with its deep sense of rel…"