“I’ve never kept a record of anything.”

More than anything else, I’d like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it’s not something I’ve ever used and I don’t think I ever will.

There’s something fundamentally wrong with a system where there’s been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

I’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn’t refuse to do another movie.

I’m swimming every day and I’m even trying to get the golf swing working again – but that might take a little bit longer.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I’d rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

It’s a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Some age, others mature.

I’ve never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.

She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss

You know, it’s the best job I’ve ever had, on its worst day it’s better than anything else, but it’s a huge amount of responsibility

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny.