English Quotes

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

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

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

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry o

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.