People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd seen dreadful, dreadful things, without saying a word. Seeing horror depicted on film doesn't affect me much.

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.