My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

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'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.