None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems.

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.