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" Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. "

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" But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible. "

" As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving. "

" That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. "

" There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. "

" All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. "

" If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. "

" I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives. "

" I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. "

" I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. "

" With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do. "

" There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word. "

" It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. "

" As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. "

" When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him. "

" The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. "

" When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting. "

" I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities. "

" There's so much crap talked about acting. "

" I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. "

Falling In Love

" There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. "

" If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. "

" The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! "

" Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries. "

" But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh. "