It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

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.

I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.

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.

My life really has been one long extravaganza.

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

She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.