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Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

I've always felt very English.

Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.