No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful…

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I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very...

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very...

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of...

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of...

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely...

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely...

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by...

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by...

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to...

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to...

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better...

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better...

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to...

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to...

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar...

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar...

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how...

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how...

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine...

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine...

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and...

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and...

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really...

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really...