It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

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 can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.