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.”
When you reach the top, that’s when the climb begins.
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.
One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
One of the great things with comedy is that there’s no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it’s either uproarious or crap. That’s the problem.
I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, ‘Educating Rita.’
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 a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I’ll go on for 20 minutes.