If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

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

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.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.