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When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.

It took a while to decide I wanted to do Hamlet. It wasn't that I was daunted - I'd been acting professionally since my mid-20s and had some pretty big Shakespearean roles under my belt by that stage, at 32: Petruchio in 'The Taming of the Shrew,' Edgar in 'King Lear,' Antony, Richard III. But when it came to Hamlet, I hesitated.

'Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the play is so long, Shakespeare manages to sustain the arc.

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

People sometimes ask me why I did this or that project. I say, 'Well, they asked me.'

One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.

I've never had therapy. Maybe the work is the therapy.

What's great about being an actor is you meet people and form a relationship very quickly.

It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It's actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

Actors, when they're older, still get a chance to let off steam or something and work things off on stage.

It was very amusing to do 'GI Joe: Retaliation' scenes with Bruce Willis, who spends months rewriting his dialogue and then turns up and doesn't say it. Part of the time, he doesn't say anything, but mumbles and mutters.

I treasure my friends but not my possessions.

I made a sofa that is constantly being updated the more people sit on it, or sit through it, or don't sit on it because it's so uncomfortable.

I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was unbelievable.

As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.

I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure.

When I was young, I used to be very frightened of getting older and of death. Now, I'm more resigned to the inevitability.

When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's sake. It was playing at being pop star. As a young boy growing up in North Wales, that was my fantasy.

I cry very easily.

I try to see some good in everyone.

Sometimes I just want to laugh.

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

I remember watching 'Fargo.' I thought that was cruel. 'GoodFellas,' lots of Scorsese stuff, I think is unnecessarily violent and almost a celebration of violence. I don't see 'Game of Thrones' as being a celebratory violence.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy.

I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

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