1. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. 2. I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
3. Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
5. I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
6. I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
7. When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
9. Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
10. As an actor, I'll play anything.
12. Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
13. Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
14. English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
16. Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
17. I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I thought he was one of the finest screen actors around.
18. Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
20. I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
21. I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
23. I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
25. I read books like mad, but I am careful not to let anything I read influence me.
26. I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
28. 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.
29. I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.
31. I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In "The Quiet American" you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl.
33. I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
34. I'm the audience's representative on earth.
35. If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.
37. In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
39. January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
41. My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.
42. My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
44. Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
45. The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
46. Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
48. The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
50. The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do".
51. The standing ovation threw me…to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
53. Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
55. To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.
57. You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.
58. I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.
60. Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. (On filming MacHale's Navy)
62. If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
63. My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.
64. I love HD. Of course, it's very unforgiving, especially on young beautiful ladies, but thank God I'm old, I don't care.
67. (on Jaws: The Revenge (1987)) I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
69. 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.
72. Whenever anyone asks me to do something about my life's work, I keep saying: "Please, I haven't finished yet. Can you give me another year?" …In a lifetime achievement award, you just have to watch yourself grow old in 45 minutes.
73. I've made an awful lot of films. In fact, I've made a lot of awful films.
75. (on Julie Walters) "Educating Rita" was wonderful, I did it with Julie Walters, the original girl. She is sensational, really fantastic, and she is a very nice person as well which is always a bonus.
78. (on Heath Ledger's performance as The Joker) The worry going in was The Joker. Jack Nicholson was the greatest Joker so, you know, how do you top that? Well, Heath Ledger's done it and he's extraordinary. He's gone in a completely different direction to Jack. Jack was like a clown figure, benign but wicked, maybe a killer old uncle. He could be funny and make you laugh. Heath is like a really scary psychopath. I did one scene with him and he was ready to go and had to come up in a lift and raid our place. I didn't see him for rehearsal and when he came out of the lift he was so incredible I forgot my lines. He frightened the life out of me. I'd never met him before. He's a lovely guy and his Joker is going to be a hell of a revelation in this picture.
79. (on Otto Preminger) O.P. is only happy if everybody else is miserable. Still, if you can keep his paranoia from beating you down, you can learn a lot from the guy.
81. (on Ray Milland) A nice old bloke.
82. (about remakes of his classic films such as Get Carter (1971) and The Italian Job (1969)) I wish they would remake the BAD ones!
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