The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.