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

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" I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better. "

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

" At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim. "

" 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. "

" But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about. "

" If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life. "

" I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. "

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

" I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films. "

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

" 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. "

" English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. "

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

" When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins. "

" The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?' "

" The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. "

" 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. "