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" People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. "

" My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be. "

" I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life. "

" 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. "

" I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. "

" I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. "

" Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. "

" 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. "

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

" I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier. "

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

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

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

" I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for. "

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

" I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter. "

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

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

" Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America. "

" 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 don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men. "

" You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "