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.

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

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.

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

I am human, all too bloody human.

Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.

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