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

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.