I can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.

What helps me is yogic breathing, dropping my spiritual level where I am really, really clear that I am playing a character.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.