It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

What I like is bottomless flattery.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!