Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.