New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

Now is the age of anxiety.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.