In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

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

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.