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.

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

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

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

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.