When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.