Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.
After making Titus I decided to take a year out and apart from a small part in Mission Impossible 2 which took 10 days, I went back to LA and literally tended the flowers in the garden, walked on the beach, climbed the mountains, drove my car and that was it.
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
And I've just done an exhibition of paintings of mine - one hundred paintings down in San Antonio for some friends of my wife, Lulu and Aaron Tucker.
And so generally, you ask me if I'm living my dreams, yeah, I am living my dreams.
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.
Funnily enough, people ask me what is it like being a celebrity. Well, I live an ordinary, simple life.
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
I am doing another series for a San Antonio library for a charity called Born to Read. It supports literacy among young kids, trying to encourage kids to read and write.
I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.
I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.
I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
I love life because what more is there.
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 mean, I'm not going to do any more Lecter. I've done three of them, and that's enough.
I mean, if I have to play a sensitive scene and do a bit of emotional stuff, I just take a few minutes to be quiet.
I never make conscious decisions.
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
I think it takes a while to learn to be relaxed and mellow, I guess. I think that's what happens once you get older. It's easier to work with people, and people find it easier to work with you.
I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff.
I was simply as a kid not inclined to dance. That was for the girls.
I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
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 always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.
I'm composing and writing music, and I've got a concert in San Antonio in May.
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'm the slowest driver in the world.
I've got a great sense of humor.
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
In New Zealand it rained a lot, it rained non-stop, which can cause problems with the filming. But you adapt to that. We'd always be ready.
It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
It was wrongly reported that I was going to retire altogether from films.
Its like, I don't understand anything about sports. I have no interest. I mean, I like boxing, but I could no more go to a horse race... I feel ridiculous doing it.
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
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.
People were always asking me about the sequel and I would say ask Tom Harris.
Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.
That's an actor's bit, to work in good American Hollywood commercial movies. So I'm going to until they stop offering me stuff.
The video directors, they're all good, I guess. But they tend... they tend to be real control freaks because they want every shot perfect and they want your performance perfect and they want to give you every line reading.
This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
We are game players. We are still children inside. If people want to have a good scare, if they want to see Hannibal, and I supply a need for that in this particular role, that's good.
Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.
When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
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