If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.

I never play without my cape.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.