Leo McKern

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.