Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

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

I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.