“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
“I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.”
“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”
“My career is going better now than when I was younger. It used to be that I'd get the girl but not the part. Now I get the part but not the girl.”
“Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses”
“I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.”
“I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.”
“Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.”
“The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.”
"I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it."
"When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins."
"At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either."
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs..."
"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."
"If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are."
"Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old."
"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."
