If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.