Acting Is No Longer About

I've Always Longed For The Theatre And Acting To Be Popular. No Actor Wants To Play To An Empty House. We Only Do It For An Audience. The More The Merrier. I Don't Make Any Distinction Between A Popular Tv Series Or Blockbuster Film And Doing Shakespeare. They're Different, But As Long As The Material Is Good And The Intention Is Honourable, It's All The Same To Me.

Journalists Often Ask Me: "aren't You Sorry That After All The Work You've Done, You're Best Known As Magneto And Gandalf?" But That's What I've Always Wanted - Not To Be Known As Myself. I Want To Draw Attention To The Characters.

My Reaction To 3d Is Subtly. Things Don't Come Out At You, But Rather You - The Audience Come Into The Film.

Actors Are Merely The Medium Through Which A Story Happens.

I've Played An Awful Lot Of People That Other People Would Call Villains, But That Isn't A Very Helpful Attitude To Have If You're About To Play Them. They Are Just People, And They May Do Dreadful Things And Say Dreadful Things, But Your Job As An Actor Is To Know Why They Do Them Or Say Them.