I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

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

I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.