Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.
A "take" is an opportunity to fail. . . and we think that we have to get it right all the time.
That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.
In terms of the stars, the only ones I cast were Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. I was in Los Angeles working and a lot of this took place on the telephone. I'd met Maggie [Smith] once and I'd come back-stage, which I'm usually loathe to do because as an actor you don't want people coming back because you want to get home [laughs].
The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty. . . no better than a beauty contest.
Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.
It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.