I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

I am not important. If I take a break, no one dies. And this is A Good Thing.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.