I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.