Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

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.

To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

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.

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

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'