First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.