I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.