What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

I can't do a million things anymore like I could when I was younger.