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.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

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

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

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