It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.