I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.