I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

Like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.

I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living and I can’t help but continue to do it.

I’m a bit of a goofball; I don’t have a lot of censors and I don’t have a lot boundaries and I’m trying to remember that the world is watching.

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?

I'm wearing this fake smile.

The human heart will never wrinkle.

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.