Living with reality is a very good trick, it gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of the molecules of your soul by living with reality because you don't expect anything anymore. Which is a weird paradox.

I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.

We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.