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

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

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

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

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

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.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.