If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.