David Warner

“I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.”

“My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.”

“If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.”

“On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.”

“I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.”

“There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.”

“To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.”

“There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.”

“Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.”