To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.