Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

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 am human, all too bloody human.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

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

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.