Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.

But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Bitterness is so ugly.