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.

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.

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

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

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.