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've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.