Tom Wilkinson

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.