If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.

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

I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.