Right after I left drama school, I had a job.
I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
My plumbing is no one's business but my own.
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
