Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

Christmas is at our throats again.

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.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.