I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.