I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

I was watching cartoons on television and a commercial came on for one of the Batman series where I played a butler. And then my grandson looked up at me and he said, "Do you know Batman?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Really," I said, "Yeah." I said I know him very well. And he told all the boys at school, he said, "My grandpa knows Batman. Does your grandpa know Batman? OK, no. Mine does.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

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?'

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.