Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it..

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up..

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life..

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy ….

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous..

What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want t….

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time..

I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's ….

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable..

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over..

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror..

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people..

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows th….

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and wha….

At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researchin….

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you..

It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense t….

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it..

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!.