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

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.

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

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

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

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

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.