God knows, I haven't always been successful.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

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.

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

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!