A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"!

What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.

Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.

God wants us to live consistently, He wants us to enjoy every single day of our lives.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.