I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.