I could have been a superstar in America - I was certainly taken out there. But I said, 'No way, Jose, I'm not staying here in this madhouse.'
For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
If you were to find all the people I've worked with and ask them what they think of me, they're all just going to say, 'Oh, wonderful', and it'll just be a lot of blah.
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.
What I am doing is not acting. I am playing myself.
It's sort of fun. If someone's eyeballing you, it makes you feel good.
I think what we do best, in the artistic world, are the things where we're handicapped.
I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.
I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.
When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.
Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.
If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.
I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.
I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'
One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.
We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.
