I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

I am human, all too bloody human.

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

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

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

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

What I like is bottomless flattery.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.