Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.
I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.
I want a horse and plough, Chickens too, Just one cow, With a wistful moo.
It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.
She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.
I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.
I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.
You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.
Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.
I'm an enormously talented man, and there's no use pretending that I'm not.
Dear 338171 (May I call you 338?)
AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
He must have been an incredibly good shot.
Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
You kissed me because you were awfully nice and I was awfully nice and we both liked kissing very much. It was inevitable.
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.
It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinée in Hull, it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction.
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.
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