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

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

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 think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.