In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up.

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not. At least for me, acting is a relief - a relief to be able to admit certain things about myself and disguise in my work, in my characters.

There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same time, so if somebody tells me that this is a movie about retired opera singers, you think 'maybe I'll wait for it to come to DVD'. You're not rushing off to see it.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.