The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back. If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it. I also never forgot something Johnny Depp said to me, which Marlon Brando said to him, 'You only have so many faces in your pocket.' I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.