And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

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.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

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