Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.