I'd never even seen orange cheese. I mean, who decided to make that orange? And so there was something different about me that they wanted to crush. I don't think it had anything to do with my physicality, but every single day in school it was, "You're the ugliest thing I've ever seen."

I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

I love Cate Blanchett: she takes risks, but is still refind.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.

There are moments when you act that you actually disappear from your body, and that's amazing. That's better than any drug, I would imagine. People take drugs to disappear from themself, and that's what it feels like when you hit that moment.