I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.