I Think The Early Years,

What's My Guilty Pleasure? The Thing Is, I Never Feel Guilty About Pleasures.

Some Of The Greatest Actors Have Turned Superheroes Into A Serious Business: Michael Keaton And Jack Nicholson In Batman; Ian Mckellen And Patrick Stewart, The First Venerable Knights Of The X-men, Who Have Now Passed The Baton To Michael Fassbender And James Mcavoy.

I Thought Theater People Wouldn't See Me If I Hadn't Trained. I Didn't Want To Just Be The Brideshead Guy, To Spend The Rest Of My Life Wearing Waistcoats. I Got The Chance To Try Everything. Not Just Romeos, But Pimps And Grandfathers And Even One Role As A Woman In A Naomi Wallace Play Called Slaughter City.

Artists Instinctively Want To Reflect Humanity, Their Own And Each Other's, In All Its Intermittent Virtue And Vitality, Frailty And Fallibility.

I Think If You're Going To Be Conventionally Romantic You've Got To Go All The Way: A Beautiful Dinner Somewhere Lovely, With Boat-loads Of Flowers, Chocolates And Champagne. But It Might Also Be Nice To Wrap Up Warm And Sit On A Roof Somewhere, With A Cup Of Hot Soup And Your Girl, Watch The Planes Come In Over London And Listen To The Night.