I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.

There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.