A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

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.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

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

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.