We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.