It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

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.

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

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.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

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.

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.