I think its very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - its just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.

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.

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

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.