"To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's ow…"

"It seems to me a long way to go just to sit in a non-drinking, non-smoking environment on the offchance your name is …"

"It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you'…"

"My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. The first time that he came to London when I was in the theatre and my…"

"Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'…"

"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…"

"[Responding to the perceived surrealism of Clangers] They're surreal but logical. I have a strong prejudice against f…"

"We would go to the BBC once a year, show them the films we'd made, and they would say, "Yes, lovely, now what are you…"