Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.