I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.