You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

Setting a movie in an earlier age gives it a mythical quality.

I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

When you get older, unless you're a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

We live in a world where over 160 million people are displaced because of climate change or war, and they have no rights and no protection, and not enough countries or people around the world are helping them.

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.