I thought, there is a God, and he's remembered my name!

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own-you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.