I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

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.