The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.