On His Hannibal Lector Mask: I've Got

Most Of My Last 30 Years Have Been Like That. Results And Manifestations Of Things I'd Dreamed Of As A Young Kid And Wanted As A Child And As A Young Man. I Realized It Maybe 30 Years Ago. I Thought, "this Is Unreal. This Has Happened As I Expected It To, As I'd Pictured It." My Whole Life Has Been Like That And I'm Fascinated By That Power That We All Have. That We Create Our Lives As We Go.

Shakespeare's So Bloody Difficult, And I Don't Like Failure. You Can Fail On Film, But There's Nobody Actually There In The Flesh To Watch You Failing.

I Worked With Lawrence Olivier Some Years Ago. He Was A Great Mentor.

I've Played A Lot Of Parts. But I Don't Look At My Feeling Is That This Is A Job. It's Given Me A Good Living.

My Father Wasn't A Cruel Man. And I Loved Him. But He Was A Pretty Tough Character. His Own Father Was Even Tougher - One Of Those Victorians, Hard As Iron - But My Dad Was Tough Enough.