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.

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.

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.

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.

Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

I promise you that this isn't going to be our future, Kitten. I will give that to you—a normal life."Her eyes glistened. "I don’t expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

If you want to surrender to creativity, surrender to creation.

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.