'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that's why I married an Italian...!

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve the dysfunction first, imaginatively, in order to play someone who is trying to negotiate their way out of it.

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.