Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

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.

Purposely decide what you want to do.

God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

The man was potent to her system, her very own drug.

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the bogeyman.

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.

Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none.