"I'm a little angry in life."
"I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine."
"My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers."
"The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it."
"I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do."
"The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet."
"I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark."
"You can't escape from what you are."
"People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody."
"I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at."
"When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it."
"To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun."
"I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one."
"I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months."
"There's only so much you can control in life."
"I have learned that acting is not about beauty."
"I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'"
"They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them."
"I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting."
"I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity."
"Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios."
"The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions."
"When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like."
"I really enjoy being an actor!"
"People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio."
