Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.