I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work, i had too many passions - bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.