A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)

Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

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.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.