"If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am." "There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed." "To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience." "I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working." "Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds." "I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, 'Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?' I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working." [On Blake Edwards' smash hit 10] "I turned down the lead role [in "10"] many, many times. I just didn't feel I was right for the part." "I'm a very ambitious person. I don't believe by any means that I've even begun to do what's inside me. I have a burning sort of fire inside me to do certain things which I know I'm going to do. I'm going to defeat all these berks that are around me and I'm going to do it. I mean, I have a name of being very difficult, I'm not difficult at all, I just cannot take mediocrity, I just cannot take it on any level."