The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

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