English - Actor | August 29, 1923 - August 24, 2014
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.
Richard Attenborough
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And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
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If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
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I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
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I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
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Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
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I'm a passionate trade unionist.
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I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.
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I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
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I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
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What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
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In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
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