In honour of the great man’s birthday, Esquire looks back on a memorable encounter with Britain’s greatest ever movie star
Yeah, that's exactly what a man should be. Always.Well, we were poor, and from her I learned to tolerate poverty with a smile.Very funny. Funnier than my dad. I'm funny like my mother, I'm not funny like my dad. He was very sarcastic. He could be quite biting. I'm not like that. I bend over backwards not to hurt anyone's feelings.
There must have been times during that period when you felt like giving up or that it wasn't going to work? To those of us who weren't there, the Sixties is presented as this moment of previously unimagined excitement and tumultuous change, plus sex and music and drugs. Isn't all that a bit overstated, this leap from black and white to Technicolor?
No, I'm not. I made it look too easy, yes. I've been my own worst enemy in that funny way. I was a great fan of Brando's. When you look at Brando, you go, "Oh, I'd like to be like that but I'll never be like that." When you look at me, you go, "Oh, he's just like me." That's the difference. What happened was I got a script from a producer and I sent it back saying, "The part's too small, I don't want to do it." And he sent me the script back, and said, "I didn't want you to play the lover, Michael. I wanted you to play the father." And I went, "Uh, oh." I was 65. And I went to Miami. There were five of us there, that were well-known: Sylvester Stallone, Madonna, Jack Nicholson and the director Oliver Stone. And me.
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