I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.
People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.
Some actors play themselves, don't they?
Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.
Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasnt that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.
Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.
One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.
I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.
I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.
I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.
I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.
Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.
I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.
