I'm Very In Love With The Fact

That Hunger Of The Flesh, That Longing For Ease, That Terror Of Incarceration, That Insistence On Tribal Honour Being Obeyed: All Of That Exists, And It Exists Everywhere.

I Think That Most Actors, And They're A Very Strange Lot Actors, Very Strange People, But I Think That They Attempt To Keep In Touch With The Child.

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.

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.

Shock Is Shock. Your Body Goes Into Shock, Regardless Of It Being Real Blood Or Fake Blood. The Mind Sends Powerful Messages To All The Various Glands And Secretions In The Body. It's Impossible Trying To Act It; It Just Happens. It's A Very Important Question: No Acting.