You can't really achieve anything in three years.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of have to relax. I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would in between scenes be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?'

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.