How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.

I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

I rather like the idea of defying death.

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.