I Don’t Think The United States Has

I Took The Fear Of Marriage From My Parents' Relationship, Because I Didn't Want To End Up In A Relationship Like That, Whereas My Brothers And Sisters Learnt A Lesson From It And Made Sure They Didn't Carry It On Into Their Own Marriages.

Actually I Was Born In 1940 In Blackpool Because My Family Lived In Manchester But Manchester Was Being Bombed. So My Mother Was Sent Away To Blackpool To Have Me And Then Went Back; So I Lived My First Eighteen Years In Manchester And Then Emigrated To The States When I Was Eighteen.

So Much Luck! I'm Not Putting Myself Down, I'm Not Saying I Don't Have Talent - I Must Have, To Have Got This Far - But I Honestly Believe That Some Of The Greatest Actors In America Are Tending Bar And Waiting Tables And Driving Taxis, And It Will Never Happen For Them.

I Don't Take Much From My Own Father, Because He Was A Very Austere, Quiet, Private Man Who Would Come Home From Work, Go To His Parlour And Play Beethoven On His Piano.

I'm A Dog Person; I've Had Dogs All My Life.