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

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.

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.

None of us will truly have freedom until we know what it means to lose everything" - Laney

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging to the enemy species are human.

Time has come to show India's strength to the world. Lets recognise our demographic dividend & present image of a Skilled India to the world.

The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.