"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."

"I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters."

"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."

"Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid."

"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."

"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."

"I never make conscious decisions."

"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."

"I love life because what more is there."

"I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else."

"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."

"This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille."

"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."

"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."

"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."

"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."

"Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then."

"Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky."

"I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash."

"I've got a great sense of humor."

"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."

"I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really."

"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."

"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."

"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff."

"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."

"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there."

"I'm the slowest driver in the world."

"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."