Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I’m human and I’m normal – well, semi-normal.

France and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing, though, is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.