A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.