A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

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 didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.