Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

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 don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.