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“I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.”
“The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.”
“I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.”
“Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!”
“I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.”
“Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.”
“I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.”
“I'm not a French singer.”
“Public crucifixion is no fun.”
“People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.”
“I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.”
“I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.”
“I take whatever good part comes along.”
“Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.”
“I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.”
“A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.”
“If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.”
“In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.”
“It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.”
“Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.”