A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'