The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.