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

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.

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

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.

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

If a person loves you but doesn't respect you then it can not be a real love. It is not possible to love them without respecting them.

Watching TV helps me come up with a lot of new ideas. Psychological and mystery help me the most because of how thought provoking they are!

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Of course he was a part of what I hated about myself. Everything was a part of what I hated about myself. It wasn't really personal.

The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.