Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.
When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.
Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'
I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.
It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.
If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.
You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?
I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.
I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.
We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.