A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a nutshell.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.