There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.