I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'