What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor’s life, because it’s so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write; and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you’ve got to do some writing.
Save your money. You’re going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don’t want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.
I don’t have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.
I never regret anything. I always said that when I’m old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn’t do; and now I’m old, and I don’t regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I’m still having it.
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.
Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books.
I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.
I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren’t funny.
A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
I wouldn’t make an anti-American film. I’m one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
Nobody’s a criminal to himself. I never play a criminal like a bad person.
I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I’m pig-headed.
80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They’re there so no one will attack them.
There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.”
I don’t want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.