Ther Quotes

When I was really young I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it. I find sides I don`t get to explore in real life. Like, I had to do a sex scene before I had sex. I was 13, 14, and it was my first love experience with 25 people in front of me. Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that`s how I really got into the music business. But I didn`t like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there. (May 1984) So then I`m playing drums and were getting gigs in certain downtown clubs like CBGB and the Mud Club, and Max`s Kansas City. And I`m starting to write music for the band too, like some songs but they already had two singers in the band, so they would never let me get up and sing a song because what`s the point? One day I finally convinced them. I`ll just play guitar and sing one song. Please, please, please. And they finally said OK. So then I got up to sing one song and the other guy went back to play the drums. And like I got a standing ovation." (December 1985)

About Aishwarya Rai: "I really wanted to work with her in _Hitch (2005)_ but she was shooting for Bride and Prejudice (2004) at the time and she couldn`t do it. She has this powerful energy where she doesn`t have to say anything, do anything, she can just stand there. Anything she`s making, I`ll be there." (February 2006)

(It was a masterclass from a player determined to leave the game with nothing but good memories.) It`s on my horse and into the sunset for me, ... The club deserves to be back in Super League and that was my aim at the start of the season ­ to help them get there.

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Body language in the cinema is thus very particular. The screen can transmit an image very different of the body. In life, we see each other by facing each other. In the cinema, one is astonished to discover oneself from another angle. But at the same time there is no obligation to look. Serge Daney used to say that the work of actors is the make movies, and the work of the spectator is to look at them.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Ang Lee did not want to come here. Because the story is set in Wyoming, he wanted to honor the writing... but there is no real infrastructure there. There is no company like ours that has a track record like we have with the unions, crews and government, and there is no incentive there.