By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

In real life, I'm afraid of heights - and people who get moral convictions... Adolf Hitler in London.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I've always played very human sort of characters.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

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

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.