If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. |
In cinema, the leading player is the director. |
In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me. |
In my own experience, in portraying other men and earning my money by pretending to be somebody else, it has stamped me with what the actor is-tribally central and socially peripheral. |
It doesn't get any easier. I still get very nervous and excited, but I'm hoping... what I'm trying to do is simplify. That's what I'm trying to do. |
It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity. |
It would frighten me if I were to learn somewhere along the line that all of those emotions had been suppressed throughout my entire life, that would be very scary, because nature would express them, somehow, in some form. |
It's always very touching when you find a character on the screen who is fiercely defending your character. |
It's very difficult to be objective about one's childhood because you have no perspective on it. I have nothing to compare it with. The only way I can lead any kind of a comparative life is to portray other men. |
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London. |
Master and Commander. |
Maybe it's not a very businesslike approach, but it's always what attracts me... I do believe that it is that energy, that wonderful energy of the ancient craft of storytelling that will ignite something in the listeners. |
Moses had a very bad stammer. Aaron often had to speak for Moses when he was in front of the pharaoh and could not articulate. |
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic. |
Now, I had feelings of unworthiness before I walked onto the set, and I have feelings of pride and wonder and astonishment and disbelief when I see what we managed to achieve on the screen. |