As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
“The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.”
“When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.”