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

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

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.