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.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.