There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

Working gets in the way of living.

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do the wrong thing, etcetera, it's just unbearable.

I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved!

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.