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.

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.

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.

This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.

I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.

No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.