Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.