Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very rich. The mystic of the Middle Ages. We have to learn from them. They influence all the philosophers when they came to Europe all those many many years ago.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.