Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

Earth, mountains, rivers, hidden in this nothingness.In this nothingness, earth, mountains, rivers revealed.Spring flowers, winter snows.There's no being or non-being, nor denial itself.

To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above.

Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.

It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Chess is one long regret.

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.