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Once punched Frank Sinatra in the jaw, thinking the singer was hitting on his wife, Lilli Palmer. Afterwards the two men became good friends.

When he accepted his Academy Award for My Fair Lady (1964), he dedicated it to his "two fair ladies", Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews. Last-mentioned had played Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway production, but was passed over for the film version in favor of Hepburn.

Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England at the age of 81. At the time of his investiture, Harrison stated that he thought his best film performance was not as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964), for which he'd won his Oscar, but as Julius Caesar in Cleopatra (1963), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.

He had a reputation for being very abrupt with his fans. One night, after a stage performance of "My Fair Lady," it was late, cold and pouring rain and an old woman was standing alone outside the stage door. As Rex emerged, she asked him for his autograph. Rex told her abruptly to "Sod off"; the old woman was so enraged that she rolled up her program and struck him with it. Harrison's co-star Stanley Holloway, who had followed Rex out in time to see this, commented sarcastically that, for the first time in theater history, "The fan has hit the shit!".

Discovered Carole Landis' body the day she committed suicide. He had dined with her the previous night.

[When asked if he received any special privileges upon becoming a knight]: Alas, no. In the old days I believe you at least got a couple of horses out of the deal.

There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life, your deepest secret feelings.

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

When I was ten we moved and I decided that none of the names I was then called - Reggie, Bobby, Baa - suited me. Somehow I hit on Rex. I must have heard someone calling for their dog and thought it sounded rather nice.

Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation. And good Lord, there is nothing less charming than affectations!