New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

The man was more highly strung than Margaret Thatcher on the rag, God rest her.

Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.