"Call me Sir if you like! Maybe people in America think being a Sir is a big deal. But I think we should all be misters together. I think the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery. And it also helps keep us 'quaint, ' which I'm not a great fan of. You don't get much with the title anymore. That was all carved up by the robber barons in the Middle Ages." [speaking in 1961] "My job is acting, and that is why I hate interviews or lectures, explaining myself to an audience." "I'm not the romantic type ... I'm a bit like the late, great Peter Sellers, only happy in character roles." "After I played a homosexual character in 'A Man of No Importance,' an American journalist asked if I'd have a rainbow flag on my car's bumper. I said I don't 'do' bumper stickers, but if I did, I'd be pleased to use that one. After all, everyone's included in the rainbow, aren't they?" [on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning] "I was the first man to be seen sleeping with another man's wife in an English film." "On The Waterfront came out and there were 150 guys [at RADA] all doing Brando impressions."