When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Grace is the best accessory that a woman can wear

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed that I was due a love story.

I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment.

Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.