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I don't want to emulate anyone.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

I don't need to worry about being idolised.

It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.

Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.