I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

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.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

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?

I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.