There's always something fishy about the French.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.

My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.