You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.
For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.
I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'
I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.
Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.
It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.
You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.
It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.
Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.
The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.
Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.
The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
I am almost neurotically private myself. Because I think it's an important distinction to make between privacy and public sphere.
Sometimes I do stuff where people say, 'Why did you do that?' And you know, it's very simple. I do it because I've never done it before.
