I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

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

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.