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" I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.' "

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" I love the finer things. "

" I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that. "

" Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up. "

" The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence. "

" I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses. "

" When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident. "

" In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called 'Remington Steele.' "

" Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically. "

" My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split. "

" You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father. "

" I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education. "

" Love is hard. "

" I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon. "

" The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring. "

" No one can escape life's pain. That's life. "

" I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor. "

" I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures. "

" Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled. "

" I found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good. "

" The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table. "

" I try to be as disciplined as I possibly can. I try to live a fairly kind of clean life. I do yoga; I cycle and do weights and swim. I do whatever it takes. "

" The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier. "

" Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do. "

" People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage. "

" I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously. "

" I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.' "

" I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake. "

" I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram. "

" I like playing thieves. "

" There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness. "