You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion.

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.

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.