My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

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?

You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.