The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.