“Certainly, I was typed. But what is typing? It is a trademark, a means by which the public recognizes you. Actors work all their lives to achieve that. I got mine with just one picture. It was a blessing.”

When I was nine, I played the demon king in “Cinderella” and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they’ve wondered if they were going to work again.