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

If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.