I wanted to honor the memory of my father, who was a great opera singer and died very young, without knowing my success. As I inherited his voice, it is in recognition of that heritage.

When I was 22 I didn't know how to manage my career or assimilate success.

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

Festivals are good to open the road for you, to bring in new faces and voices, but not to go back to once you've made it.

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

Obviously, there's times in your career when people doubt you.

Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.