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

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.