I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.