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" Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. "

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

" I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. "

" 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. "

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

" Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers. "

" 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. "

" I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. "

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

" 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 try to make everyone around me feel comfortable. "

" If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking. "

" 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. "

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

" As an actor, I'll play anything. "

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

" Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else. "

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

" I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans. "

" I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.' "

" 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! "