I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.