Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. |
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters. |
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. |
I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it. |
I love life because what more is there. |
I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor. |
Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor. |
Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought. |
I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really. |
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there. |
Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky. |
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. |
I've got a great sense of humor. |
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful. |
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. |
Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid. |
I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. |
I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America. |
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it. |
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it. |