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

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" I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work. "

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

" The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. "

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

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

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

" 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'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see. "

" Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. "

" If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. "

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

" As an actor, I'll play anything. "

" Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast. "

" 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. "

" English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. "

" I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. "

" Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think. "

" The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. "

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

" 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. "

" In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. "

" Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. "

" 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. "

" My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work. "

" 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. "

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

" What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone. "