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" I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt. "

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" 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. "

" You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one. "

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

" 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 felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. "

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

" Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. "

" 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. "

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

" My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to. "

" 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. "

" People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors. "

" 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. "

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

" To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example. "