Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.