New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

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

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

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.

I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.

Be yourself, be yourself.

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.

The tasteof rain-- Why kneel?

There's a rapport that any photographer is going to have with his subject matter. And if you don't have a rapport, you're going to find the task of photographing it difficult.

I wanna see a snake eat spaghetti.

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.