“Acting essentially requires feeling.”

I am an emotional cuss.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole.

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

My only enemy is time.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful.

I am an artist, not a politician.

Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.

Our tragedies are only as big as we make them.

My tramp is made up of mimicry.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

The desire for peace is universal.

I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite sad faces.

I honestly don’t even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.

You never know what’s going to happen. That’s why I like acting. It’s precious to me to be able to live more than one life.

Acting to me is real life – I don’t act.

I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.