I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.

I used to have two double espressos a day. I gave that up, had headaches for five days but now I'm feeling great.

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

for fear is all the blind future harrying us and when the scales drop away the fear goes too

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

It's quite quick for me to know if I want to play a character or not.

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.

I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.