My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.