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You don't sacrifice your individuality; you sacrifice a lot of freedom.
I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.
The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.
You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
Nobody's a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.
The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.
I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.
I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work.
I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.
I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.
Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.
The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.
I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.
I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do.
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."
I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.