I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

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.

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.