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.

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.

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

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.

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

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.