Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

I'm not going to judge what I do.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property

Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.