I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

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.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.