Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

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.

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

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

I never look back at all. All of my sentiment and emotion goes into my family. I'm an extremely family oriented person and I have a very, very happy family life. That doesn't just include blood relations. I have friends who are close to me.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.