Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.