With Narration, You Have To

Shakespeare Villains Were Extraordinary. Macbeth, Iago, Richard Iii... They're So Richly Layered That A British Actor Would Find It Almost Impossible To Create A Two-dimensional Villain, If He's Explored In His Early Years Or Continues To Explore His Shakespearean Heritage. You Can Almost Not Judge Them, If They're Played Really Well.

It Is Better For Me To Serve A Charity As An Actor Or A Voice, Rather Than At A Luncheon Being Just A Celebrity.

The Number Of Choices You Make In The Event That You See On Stage, Those Choices Are Sometimes Largely Determined By The Rehearsal Process And The Experiments That You Go Through And The Choices That You Make In The Rehearsal Room, Not In Front Of An Audience.

When Attenborough Asked Me To Do Gandhi It Was Almost Like Stepping Off One Boat And Stepping On To Another, Even Though Both Boats Are Going At 60 Miles Per Hour.

I Think The Actor Has A Tribal Role As The Archetypal Story Teller. I Think There Was A Time When The Storyteller, The Priest, The Healer, Were All One Person In One Body. That Person Used To Weave Stories At Night Around A Small Fire To Keep The Tribe From Being Terrified That Sun Had Gone Down.