Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.
It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.
I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.
When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.