If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

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

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.