I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

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

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.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.