The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

The earliest memories I have from my childhood are of my mum getting ready to go on stage. I must have been about five and I would watch her vomiting backstage on opening night, and then the next minute she became Isabella, the Queen of Spain. At the time I remember thinking, 'What kind of schizophrenic job is this?' Now it all makes sense.