When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.