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" I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. "

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" My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. "

" The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?' "

" I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. "

" I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for. "

" You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner, and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. "

" I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers. "

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

" 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 usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle. "

" I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed. "

" The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. "

" I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. "

" Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about. "

" If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life. "

" Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. "