Quotes

[After being diagnosed with lung cancer] I got precisely what I deserved after a four-pack-a-day habit for fifty years.

[on running a London nightclub] Which is where my career really began. Noel Coward came in one night; I managed to talk to him for a time and wound up wriggling into a small part in a West End company doing "Dracula".

I also did rather creditable acting jobs as the rotten seed in "My Son, My Son", and the villainous charmer in "Ladies in Retirement". But nobody really cared. They just handed me another sword and doublet and said, "Smile!".

I did a Charlie Chaplin imitation for my mother when I was six and never really got over it.