I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.

My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.

I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

Ridicule is not a part of the scientific method and the public should not be taught that it is

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.