I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

I owe everything to the army.

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

Design that mimics the sensual continuity of nature's subtle connections of color, light and texture invite the viewer's receptivity.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.