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.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

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