The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

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

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.