If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

Sometimes you don't really understand the characters you do. I don't need to. Most of the behavior is obscure and I don't mind that. On the contrary, it's a fuel for me, to find out who the character is. As the spectator is finding out, I find out about the character myself.

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.