Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

No one is ever holy without suffering.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.