We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

The unique thing about Margaret Rutherford is that she can act with her chin alone. Among its many moods I especially cherish the chin commanding, the chin in doubt, and the chin at bay.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.