Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.