Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

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

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.

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