I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.

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

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 dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.