No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

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

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.