I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

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

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

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

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.