It always makes me sad when someone comments on how much they love my work- from 15 years ago! I don't want to be just another old school guy that fell off.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.
It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.
I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.
It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.
Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.
You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
When I look back over my career, I just feel pleased that I'm still working and getting some good roles. It's been 30 years now, and a generation has grown up with me. There are kids who don't have a clue who I am, but they queue up and ask for my autograph and admit their mums love me! It's all good - I am having a ball.