"If it had not been for Benjamin Britten (the composer), I wouldn't have been an actor. He gave me belief, self belief." "Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life." "But the passion and drama in the Lon Chaney version (of the 1924/25/29 film version of "The Phantom of the Opera") is unsurpassable. He was superb, he was surperb. I owe a lot to Lon Chaney". "I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference."