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

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.

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.

I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.

I remember watching him perform these endless, boring violin solos, with his long hair flowing behind him like an Afghan hound in a gale, and thinking, 'what a tosser.

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.

Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever, I want you more than ever.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

Tohru: Call a doctor, or a vet, or anybody! Oh, Mr. Postman, it's terrible! You see, they're animals! Postman: Uh, yes, they certainly are. Here's your mail.

I love physical stuff. I love circusy, weird, breathing fire and bucket-listy things.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.