If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

I got used to [ Lars Von Trier] doing the narration for 'Dogville' and 'Manderley.' And I said to him I do these narrations for you but you never put me in a film! So he called my bluff and put me in 'Melancholia' and I was thrilled about that.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

I certainly don't see myself as Caligula.