I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

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

...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.