I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then…that’s what makes life worthwhile.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "You look good. You got a good pair of shoulders, you got a good head, good face."