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I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

I love the idea of making images of the parts of the body that we all have but that no one pays attention to, like the soft area underneath your nose.

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.