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.

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

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

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

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.'

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

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