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Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I haven’t earned much money through films.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

It wasn’t glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn’t merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

I am not a role model for anyone.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Frankly, I never thought that I would represent my country one day.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.