It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions

All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.