My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.