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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

When I was a child, I pretended that I had my own cooking show. I would stand at the kitchen counter with an empty bowl and spoon and talk in a silly voice, explaining the concoction I was creating.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created.