“Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.”

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with man.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Acting essentially requires feeling.

My happiest days are those in which I do good work.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Let us try to understand each other’s problems, for in modern warfare there is no victory.

We think too much and feel too little.

People’s affection hurts me but it’s a beautiful pain.

One cannot do humour without a great sympathy for one’s fellow man.

What a sad business, being funny.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can’t or don’t do in my normal everyday life.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he’d get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who’s not in the business.

I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.

If you’re a serious actor, it’s when you know you’re going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

There are many sides to me to who I am and my personality. I think the only thing that is rebellious about me is that I don’t really have a lot of fears, as far as film industry is concerned.

Thirty is a very good age for an actor: you can play both young and old men.

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes. It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.