One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.