Actors and burglars work better at night.

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

all i want it's a pièce of your heart not all of it

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feat of reason and the flow of soul.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.