We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.
If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.
As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
I am really the victim of other people's imagination.
The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.
Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.
I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
In anything really, it's finding the reality. You can't be 'real,' but you can create a reality. And that created reality is what the audience believes in. And that's essential. Because if the audience doesn't believe that, they're never going to trust you. And if they don't trust you, you can't lead them up the mountain.
I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything!
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
Obviously, the arrogance of my own nature in regards to other people's work would suggest that I think I'm talented.
Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.
I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.
The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative exercise anyway, the whole business of acting, so it just gives you a bit more to feed the imagination. Unless it's really silly, just two of you stuck in a space with nothing but green screen that's got to be pretty difficult.
I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.
Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.
When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realize that it is going to come to an end at some stage.
I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.
It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.
You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
