To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

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.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.