I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.