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

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

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

I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

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.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.