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

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.

I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

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 like the Queen Mum.

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star.

There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.

No one ever watched competitive swimming.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

Money is always a pressure.