One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'

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

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

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

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