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" I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'm the audience's representative on earth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons. "

" One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow. "

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

" I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything. "

" I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that. "

" I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American. "