I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out