I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.