“My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.”

“I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.”

“I find that fame tends to turn one from an actor and a human being into a piece of merchandise, a public institution.”

“There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.”

“I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.”

“I never felt more free in this world, than when I was five years old”

“Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?”