My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.

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

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides to throw it all out of the window and shoot spontaneously, then you must follow his lead.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.