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.

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

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.

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.

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

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