Most of my last 30 years have been like that. Results and manifestations of things I'd dreamed of as a young kid and wanted as a child and as a young man. I realized it maybe 30 years ago. I thought, "This is unreal. This has happened as I expected it to, as I'd pictured it." My whole life has been like that and I'm fascinated by that power that we all have. That we create our lives as we go.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

Guilt is the thief of life.

I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.