We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

I am in your thoughts.You are in my dreams.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

I would still have old ladies come up to me after the show and pat me on the cheek after I had said all this vulgar stuff. They would be like, 'Oh you're a silly boy - we know you're just playing.

I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.