Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.

I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.