Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality.

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'