Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

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

When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

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.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.