In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.