I can't retire from life. I love life too much and I cannot wait to start the day..

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight..

The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say….

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right….

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager..

People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan ….

When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in Sou….

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtu….

When I was 11 I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin and my teacher told me I would make a great actor..

The misapprehension about me is that I am some loud, rampant maniac. I am actually very pensive and quiet..

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than d….

My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day's good health - I wish I could have gi….

I've always hated it when people overspend, are spoilt or throw their money away..

My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourf….

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a vie….

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the o….

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taug….

I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardus….

My biggest love is space. I completed 800 hours' space training in Moscow and I became the world's oldest man to go to the North Magnetic Pole. At 67….

I've always been generous and like giving to charities and people in need..

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plaster….