I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

How can I change me to suit the script?

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.