There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.