I never listened to them, ... I grow from the inside out. I said to Roman, 'I met this man, I met him when I was Oliver's age.'

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

Being a leading man on a film set under the direction of somebody like Dickie Attenborough is very empowering, and you have to be extremely careful how you use that power.

There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.