Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

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

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.

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.

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.