Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

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

If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.