For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.