I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to make you laugh, to movies that explore the most complicated side of the human soul. As an actor, I play all of those things, and I still like it.

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.