He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.