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

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.

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

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.

Work is much more fun than fun.

My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.