I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.