By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you

I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.

Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness.

I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.