In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

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