I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
From Richard Attenborough
I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.
I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
I prefer fact to fiction.
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
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