Chap Quotes

(on picking up his new hobby) Boxing is fascinating. It`s good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I`m a big cheese, but you don`t feel like that when you`re in the ring with a chap who knows what he`s doing. It`s ritual humiliation. I`m going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who`s the real you? And who`s the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

I had this idea of myself as a shy, kind, sweet chap. I was working with Winona Ryder and she turned to me and said, "Fuck, man, you`re really intense!" I was so shocked, I went, "What do you mean? I`m not intense, I`m sweet!" My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

(describing his role in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)) "The chap in the duffle coat jumping up and down in the background!"

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

I must tell you the truth - I have not seen them, and for a very good reason. Knowing that I would get asked questions like that, I`m always desperately honest. If I didn`t like the performance, I don`t know how I would answer. I do know Timothy, and he is a very, very pleasant chap and a good actor. - When asked for his opinion about the James Bond movies featuring his successor Timothy Dalton

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

Curley - and others - are going to discover that this old chap has a lot of fight in him, and that I`ve never yet backed down from a fight.