Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.