I've always played very human sort of characters.
I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.
At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.
Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
Some men just want to watch the world burn
I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.
If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.
God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
