That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

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

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?