My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside the numb hearts.

At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

I'll take account of things at the end of the season. Now I'm expecting a good finish to the league season.

The hard rain nailed the night to the city.

Although cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of terrorism.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

Trouble follows me wherever I go. Thing I'm in is just a sack o'woe.

No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!