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?

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

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

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

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.