Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

A lot of actors flame out.

While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I’ve survived under the worst of eras and times, and I’ve always had a good time doing it, because I never really...

It’s hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it’s heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.

Basically, I’m a shy human being. Very introverted.

I always adored Cary Grant. I was fascinated by him. But I could never get too close to him.

I’m my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I’m a ‘doctor’ without a license.

I’m kind of like a relic from another era.

I’ve gone to skin doctors and they’ll say to you, ‘We should remove this because it’s pre-cancerous,’ and I’ll say, ‘Explain pre-cancerous to me.’ I’ll listen for about twenty minutes and I’ll say excuse me,...

I consume an enormous number of books, but they’re always on a particular subject because I’m obsessive.

It’s my personal opinion, and I’m not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

Women don’t like men who know they’re good looking. They’d much prefer a man who doesn’t know he’s good looking.

Acting has always been something for me that’s been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch...

My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it’s been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There’s a much better way to do it. There could be...

I’m not somebody who runs from the press. I’m not coy. I appreciate the press I’ve had over the years.

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more ‘dates’ than me.

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

I’ve developed a self-discipline since the time I was a child.

I’ve never turned down an autograph request. I’ve never not taken a picture with someone.

I don’t use the phrase ‘I love you’ very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

Women love romance, but they’re not as romantic as men.

Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could...