Education is cheap; experience is expensive.
Next to that kid, we all look like onions.
That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs].
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty. . . no better than a beauty contest.
A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit. '
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.