I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

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

I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'