"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."
"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."
“My childhood was dominated by women - I was surrounded by them from an early age. But as I grew up, I couldn't have been more inexperienced or hopeless with them - I didn't lose my virginity until I was 21.”
“My wife was the love of my life but I lost her because I cheated. If you do something like that, you never forgive yourself, and nothing can be that good again.”
So what attracts him to a woman? The piercing blue eyes are suddenly thoughtful and the question is followed by a long silence.
I don't have a shape that I like nor favorite color hair. I like people with resilience, determination and terrifically impish humor.
Do people ask you to do Frank Spencer?
Yes. Not in America , though. They don't think I'm funny at all in America . They've never seen me be funny, so when I went over there with Phantom of the Opera, I became a romantic lead, I was this romantic Victorian figure.
You are a sex symbol there!
[Laughs] I was asked about being voted one of the sexiest men in America four years ago. And I said, "Well, it doesn't feel any different from being voted funniest man on TV. What's the link? I laugh a lot in bed and that makes for good sex.
People find masks sexy, too.
I never wore a mask in bed. But I suppose that is a sort of sexy thing.
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