I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

Play the game, never let the game play you.