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" I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home. "

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" I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters. "

" I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of. "

" I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. "

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

" Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15. "

" I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl. "

" My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30. "

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