As an actor you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.