My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks.

My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.