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" Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. "

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" My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits. "

" Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest. "

" I quite like being old. "

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" I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. "

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" It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back. "

" No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is. "

" I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen. "

" If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word. "

" An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world. "

" I can't stand light. I hate weather. "

" Right after I left drama school, I had a job. "

" My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. "

" Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. "

" I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt. "

" I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery. "

" All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. "

" I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.' "

" I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. "

" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "

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" I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. "

" Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. "