There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

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 never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.