I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

Let your doubts & fears melt away, as you fulfill your life's destiny & goals.

Live with dignity or die getting it.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

The moment of twilight is simply beautiful.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.