Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai

..and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh,well, I think of my sex life

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor

Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother!