I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.

You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

Nice, the club where I started my career in 1983, want me to see out my playing days there.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

I'm happy to see the United States and China cooperating more and more with movies. The entertainment industry in China is developing very fast. I hope there can be a bridge for actors to work in both places.

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.