Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle

Dad, I really want to become an actor, but if this is what it's all about, I don't want to do it

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant

It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done

He's probably the world's most beautiful looking man [Leonardo Dicaprio], yet he doesn't think he's that gorgeous. And to me, he's just smelly, farty Leo

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it

I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can

You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself