I let myself become a willing workhorse. The roles were good, bad and indifferent, but I always gave a part my best shot and tried to enjoy it.
I have no idea why but acting was in my blood. God knows how I managed it, but none of it was spilled in the war.
I wish I had half the courage of some of those chaps I've played on the screen.
I am not going around saying, 'Why me? Why me?' What helps me is accepting it, getting on with things. You can't let yourself go on wallowing. -- in a 2006 interview regarding the suicide deaths of two of his sons.
You don't consciously set out to do something gallant. You just do it because that is what you are there for. -- referring to his heroism during WWII