“You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.”

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

“Besides, I hated him but I loved him too. Yes. I know all about that sort of thing. Christ, I should, I'd heard nothing else my last two years in New York. 'They have this terrific love-hate thing going,' everybody said about everybody else. 'You watch, it's going to destroy them-.' But never about me. When I took to someone I took to them, and when I took against them ditto. Mostly I felt indifference.”

“[T]he 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 the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”

“It's just that I know the world is so wide and full of people and exciting things that I just go crazy every day stuck in these institutions. I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes lots of training. You have to start very young.”

“Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it.”