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.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

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

How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.