One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick..

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession..

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, afte….

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld n….

Julie Andrews has a wonderful British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India..

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his pr….

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female..

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of fri….

I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter….

How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a ha….

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no c….

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'..

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire..

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The ….

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gif….

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure..

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a mor….

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the….

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar..

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any pa….

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise..