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

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" I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional. "

" Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. "

" 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. "

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

" When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right. "

" 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. "

" To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes. "

" 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. "

" There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful. "

" I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35! "