English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

You're your first best audience, long before anybody else hears you. So don't be an easy audience. Keep asking for more.

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.

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

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

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