I can make the best French toast.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

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.