People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

It's in our blood to start again.

My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.

You can't get back what you've lost, What's important now is "What is it that you still have. —Jimbei

the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

I'm done growing. I only grow when I put my high heels on now.

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.