I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the blitz, the air-raid sirens went off every night for 30 nights, and each time, my parents would grab my sister and me and take us to the shelter beneath Whitechapel underground station.
I liked Stanley Kubrick from the start. He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and ally. He seemed to possess no airs or attitudes, neuroses, or predilection towards tantrums.
My earliest memory is of my first day at primary school and the distress of seeing my mother part from me.And being in a room full of strangers - of aliens. I felt that I would never see her again.
It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.
With the feminist movement - a good movement which I support - there's been more overt criticism of the male, an attitude that men are failing to understand the finer nature of women, failing to appreciate their needs, failing to support them, failing to be compassionate.
Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.
The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
I like evil people.
I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre.
I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.
If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie.
Los Angeles is a weird mixture of every influence that Europe has dropped in its melting pot. It is hot, arid, picturesque, seething, banal, sometimes plain pleasant, and sometimes awesome.
My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.
I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.
Transgender casting is a kind of literalism. It is the same with racial casting. This means that you can now only play Othello if you are black. There is something quite tainted about it. It is a form of racism in itself.
