I became a dancer late and an actor late.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

I guess they have to label someone the sexiest person in the world, and it is always someone who is on telly even if it’s the weatherman. For a couple of years it was me and then it was someone else. It’s nicer being the sexiest man than the most ugly man. I live with it, and I don’t mind it, but I don’t go around with a big smile on my face everyday.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.