A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea..

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act..

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding..

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting..

Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters….

I am human, all too bloody human..

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving….

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do..

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act..

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be..

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone..

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life..

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?.

One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't frien….

We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've….

Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his stro….

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a produc….

There's a remedy for everything except death..

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines..

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV..

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another..