- I'm so tired of not being able to make a movie without a car chase, or the villain dying twice. It's all exactly the same.
- I do an awful lot of crap, but if it's not immoral, I don't mind. I'm a workaholic.
- I was in Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995), with Liz Hurley [Elizabeth Hurley], which was God-awful and quite rightly torn to shreds. Then there was Passion of Mind (2000) last year with Demi Moore. Terrible script. Awful, actually, but I needed the money. She's alright, not very bright or talented. I imagine she and Bruce Willis together were a joy to behold.
- [speaking in 2009] I always used to send up the actress Glynis Johns because she'd take about ten vitamin pills every day. I now realise I have just as many - set out in a little bowl by my wonderful housekeeper Connie. I haven't a clue what they are, but I do what I'm told.
- [on Jean Simmons, 2012] She was stunning, Jean, and wonderful. I starred with her four times, including the first West End production of A Little Night Music. She and I and Elizabeth Taylor were all born in the same area of Hampstead. We went to the same Mickey Mouse club. I liked Elizabeth very much. Aside from that crap about the world's biggest diamonds, she was a warm-hearted woman and extremely earthy!
- There was no crap about Ingrid [Bergman]. No starry stuff. When she lived in London, she would have lunch with us every Sunday. She had a lovely face, but God, she was a big girl. She was the outdoors type and we'd go cycling in Richmond Park. I got cross with her when she broke one of the children's bikes because she was, well, big. I was with her the day before she died of cancer. She knew she was dying.
- [on working with Demi Moore for the second time] The trouble was her marriage to Bruce Willis was breaking up and she wasn't there at all. I made this fatal mistake saying she wasn't bright or talented and the papers leapt on it. But she had no recollection we had ever met! She behaved impeccably and couldn't have been nicer. I couldn't say "I got you wrong" - she had no idea what I'd said in the first place.
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