My view of actors is that basically they’re all harmless lunatics who’d be on the psychiatrist’s couch.
Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn’t mean I’m an eel-and-pie yob.
My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I’d get the girl.
It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, ‘How much is that?’
I spent my life in the library reading books.
If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you’re talking to.
I see myself as 38, but you don’t notice it.
It’s vital to have your own space so you aren’t constantly in each other’s pockets.
Don’t sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
When you’re a movie star and you’re young, you are always playing someone who’s a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.
Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly – because if they don’t speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you’ve got.
And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
I’ve never taken drugs – if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.
I’ve never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others properties.
If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn’t interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don’t want to become an actor. 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 trouble with women? Elbows.