I'm Not Tough Anymore, I'm 82.

I've Been Acting A Long Time, And I Can Play A Cockney Gangster Or A Womanizer In My Sleep Or Standing On My Head. But What I Try To Do Is I Try To Find Characters That Are As Far Away From Me As I Possibly Can And Then Make Them Real. A French Nazi Is About As Far Away From Me As I Can Possibly Get Without Actually Going To Mars Or Something.

I Spent My Life In The Library Reading Books.

The American Cinema In General Always Made Stories About Working-class People; The British Rarely Did. Any Person With My Working-class Background Would Be A Villain Or A Comic Cipher, Usually Badly Played, And With A Rotten Accent. There Weren't A Lot Of Guys In England For Me To Look Up To.

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.

Do I Believe In God? Yes I Do. When You've Had A Life Like Mine, You Have To.