Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

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

I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

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.

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

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.