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.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.

Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

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

I can't sing, but I know how to, which is quite different.