I'm not a French singer.

Public crucifixion is no fun.

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.

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.

I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.

I quite like being old.

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.

Every three or four years, I'm hot again.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.

Money is always a pressure.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

I love working with the young.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.