What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

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

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.