If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.
I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. “Action” – and then do it.
There’s many a good tune played by an old banjo.
Getting old ain’t for the faint of heart.
I wanted to be a musician but I didn’t have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.
In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.
You look closely enough, you’ll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.
When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very “method” and all that. Now, I don’t give a hoot.
My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
I drank a lot, but I wouldn’t have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don’t have to be there anymore.
I’ve played a lot of parts. But I don’t look at my feeling is that this is a job. It’s given me a good living.
Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I’m talking about.
At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.
I wouldn’t use the word ‘scared’ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.
I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.