When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.

Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

There was one part of my life where I would go out every night. Ha-ha, if I missed going out to the club, it was the end of the world. I still like to go out, I love to hear music, I love to dance.

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn’t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.