There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

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

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.