A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.