...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

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

Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.