I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

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.

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.

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

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.'

I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.