My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don't enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

In The Godfather, for instance, they say they won't deal drugs because they have a code of behaviour. He is the last remnants of that. So playing someone like that, who is also in pain with his kidney stone, means you're beginning to find a dimension of the guy who is king and all show and the private guy who is in pain.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.