The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

I need someone to give me a part where I play the piano so I can learn it. I would love that.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.