I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.

I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.