Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

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.

Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

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

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.