Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later.
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."
My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
I'm the audience's representative on earth.
I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.
I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
How can I change me to suit the script?
