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.

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.

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Sustainability is a political choice, not a technical one. It's not a question of whether we can be sustainable, but whether we choose to be

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

Simply put, killing healthy or treatable animals is immoral.

Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.

War is sweet to those who never tried it.

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.