The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.