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The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.
I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.
If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.
Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.
A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
I'm looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.
I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
I don't have any regrets because I'm very optimistic, and live each day as though it's the last.
80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
There is no point in competing with young talent...I just concentrate on getting better each day.
I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.
Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.
Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.
If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I'd get the girl.
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.
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.
The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
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'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.