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" At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either. "

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" Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell. "

" Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks. "

" 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'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. "

" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "

" 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. "

" My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. "

" The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. "

" I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane. "

" Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. "

" I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that. "

" I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. "

" January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out. "

" I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. "

" The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure. "

" I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men. "

" I'm the audience's representative on earth. "

" I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable. "

" The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all. "

" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "

" There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful. "

" 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. "

" Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you. "

" 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 don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh. "

" When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you. "

" I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. "

" 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! "

" Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America. "

" In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor. "