Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions of your brain. All I want them to do is to see the effect.

Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it. And actually there is nothing wrong with walking on a set with an empty brain and then on action allowing your adrenaline and your trust in yourself to take over.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.