I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.

You don't have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

Any film is at least better than real life.

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'