Stage and Screen Quotes

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes.

Kevin Kline is an honorary Brit.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

And I'm a big fan of Benedict Cumberbatch.

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

I've always wanted to keep my foot in film as well as theatre and be working in both worlds.

Derek Jacobi is probably our finest actor.

I'd like to drift into Jessica Tandy-type parts.