The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

Don't make it new

I know I'm going to shred the skin off your face and turn it into hair ribbons.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.

I use all of my bullets and my guns like I'm supposed to use them.

I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

When I have a daughter I have a lot of good advice for her.

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.