Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

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

Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one, but it can be carried too far. I one played a performance of The Knight of the Burning Pestle with a temperature of 103 and gave sixteen members of the company mumps, thereby closing the play and throwing everybody out of work. There may be a moral lurking somewhere in this, but I cannot for the life of me discover what it is.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.