Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to Ron Harwood about making a movie. So, you know Tom and Albert Finney had been friends since the beginning of their career as they became stars around the same time - Tom always reminds me that Albert was first with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and then Tom with The Long Distance Runner.

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.