Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name.

All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman.

'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.

I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.

I had a kiss with Raquel Welch's daughter - she was a very naughty kisser.

I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.

I certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me.

Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business.

I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.

Throughout my life, whenever I thought I'm dancing welI, I'm not.

I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.

There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.