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'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

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

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

I'm very much a loner. I don't like long relationships with people and I always keep people at a distance.

I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.