We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because that's how I am. The information comes out because I am brave enough to allow it. I'm not brave as a human being in everyday life. I'm brave when I'm acting.

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

Ever since I was a small child, Ive had this feeling - its in my nature, and so its not even pretentious - that if everyones going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.