I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

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.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.