I just love to go home, no matter where I am, the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, I love to go home.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

I've never taken drugs -- if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

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

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

I'm very, very family oriented. I'm a big cook and a good connoisseur and I only drink very good red wines now.

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

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Someone said to me the other day: Well, you're eventually going to live until 110. And I said: Well, who's going to keep me? What age do I retire? 100? How are you going to live all those years and who is going to keep you doing it? I have a couple of grandchildren now so I'm banking on them.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.

I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.

As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film -- nice short takes.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

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