Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.