I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.