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.

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

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

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.

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.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

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.