It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.