If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

You're never too old to be crazy.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

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

I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.