"[On Kenneth Williams] He was quite happy to steal the good lines I made up and use them before I could say them [...]…"

"We'd seen all the rushes, which we thought very funny, but the premiere audience reaction was cold and so were the re…"

"[On Norman Wisdom] One knew that he would lay his hands on anybody [...] You had to make sure you nipped about a bit.…"

"I had to hide every morning, until Daddy had gone out to work. And then stay out late to try to avoid him in the even…"

"I think my parents had visions of me being found in the Thames with six illicit foetuses in my womb and needle marks …"

"I remember once saying that I'd like to go to university. My father told me: "I would rather see you dead at my feet …"

"It's really splendid, my dear. Are you going to bring it into town?"

"You get set on a path and, if you succeed, you get better parts, but of the same kind. If you don't take a lot of tro…"

"Home life was horrid. Daddy used to knock me about with his fists, and my mother would egg him on."

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"