I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

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.'

Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

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