And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

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.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.

I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

I'm very much more choosy now. I do stuff that I really, really, really like.

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

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.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

For Cider House Rules, I was doing a New England accent.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

You're never too old to be crazy.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

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.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.