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" I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way. "

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" I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that. "

" I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good. "

" All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman. "

" If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it's actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can - to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do. "

" It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue. "

" I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them. "

" I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen. "

" There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world. "

" I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy. "

" I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name. "

" With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor. "

" I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac. "

" When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next. "

" I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism. "

" I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't! "

" I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've seen them work so well. And as long as everyone loves each other, it can work very well. "

" Throughout my life, whenever I thought I'm dancing welI, I'm not. "

" It's always more fun to be an anti-hero. They're more interesting. "

" I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview. "

" Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart. "

" Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people. "

" 'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much. "

" I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries. "

" Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. "

" I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look. "

" I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I had nothing to wear. I'd ask my brother what to do, and he'd tell me to wear my dressing gown. I'd tell him I can't - it's too horrible. He'd tell me to wear his as well. So I'd meet Gorbachev wearing two dressing gowns. "

" The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather. "

" The emphasis in 'Notting Hill' was perhaps, I thought, slightly more on the romance than on the comedy. But I think 'Mickey Blue Eyes' is maybe slightly more on the comedy. And the tone on 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' it's a far sillier film. "

" I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really. "

" My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do. "