The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing..

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid..

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated and I've never been really close to anyone..

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons..

What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all toge….

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make….

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older….

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time..

Working with Katherine Hepburn, she said to me, "Don't act." She said, "Read the lines. Just be. Just speak the lines." I said, "Okay." She said, "Yo….

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes..

I don't know why they gave me a knighthood - though it's very nice of them - but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and….

My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anyt….

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that,….

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then..

There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very -….

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't wo….

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well..

I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without movi….

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doi….

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themse….

Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don't want to just retire. No, I enjoy it all and you just keep going until the day comes w….