Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

I can make the best French toast.

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.

I wouldn't mind being a lord.

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.'

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

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