I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most over-rated human being since Judas Iscariot won the A.D.31 'Best Disciple' competition.