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David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.

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Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

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If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

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I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

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You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

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I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.

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When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

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I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he's headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.

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When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.

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I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: August 29th, 1923

Died: August 24th, 2014

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