I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

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

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.

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.

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.