The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

I play music -- I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.

I like to take it easy.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

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 not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

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've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.

My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.

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've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.