One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I'm sure there isn't an after-life. If there were, Ivor Novello would have got a message to us.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

Don't be ashamed of who you are, embrace who you are.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

Women really do want to be on time. It's just that everything starts so darn early.