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" I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script. "

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" My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits. "

" Right after I left drama school, I had a job. "

" When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful. "

" I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. "

" I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions. "

" It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines. "

" The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. "

" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "

" Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead. "

" I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. "

" 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. "

" An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world. "

" I wouldn't mind being a lord. "

" I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. "

" I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. "

" I've done everything that's possible to be done. "

" I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen. "

" I quite like being old. "

" It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. "

" I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically. "

" I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. "

" I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. "

" Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business. "

" I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. "

" Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot! "

" I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. "

" I love London. "

" It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year. "

" Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. "