Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.