If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.