I come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov and then you're doing Arthur Miller in a season and no-one bats an eye.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.

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Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.