Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years.

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.

I learned my "facts of life" on toilet walls. I'd walk up in school bathrooms and there would be crude drawings and figures engaged in sex. That's how I learned.