I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.