The reward is in the doing of it.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together and you're mine for a night. And I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish...that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, 'I don't want anything more'. Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.