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I'm not tough anymore, I'm 82.
The trouble with women? Elbows.
Obsession is a young man’s game.
As an actor, I'll play anything.
You're never too old to be crazy.
How can I change me to suit the script?
Some men just want to watch the world burn
I'm the audience's representative on earth.
I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.
I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
I spent my life in the library reading books.
God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
Use the difficulties - if you can't avoid them
Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.
To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
I've always played very human sort of characters.
Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.
I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore.
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.
I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
I'm the happiest grandfather in the world, I promise you.
You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.
I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.
Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.
My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.
You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.
If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.
I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.
Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.