I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

I'm a lurid character!

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.