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.'

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

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

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.