I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.