The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

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.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.