Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you.

The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

It's difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognise you from your work or just because you're 6 ft. 3 in. and have the eyebrows of Satan. It's difficult to distinguish between the two.

When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

I loved "Clueless." That was one of my favorite movies of all time.

Negotiation is like an athletic contest; Momentum is paramount!!

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all time. It was considered revolutionary, and some libraries wouldn't carry it. But it's a classic because it taps into empowerment for kids, kids facing dangers and winning.

Rules governing defecation hygiene and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.