I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
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.
I was called ‘Dumbo,’ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
I’ve always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn’t believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.
I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
I’m devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people – and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn’t mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter – but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.
I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.
My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.
I’ve got a great sense of humor.
I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that’s what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I’ve never really belonged anywhere.
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.
A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
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 don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.
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.
I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.