“The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.”

“The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.”

“Life is like a theatre, but the question is not whether you are in the audience or on the stage but rather, are you where you want to be?”

“Sport, as I have discovered, fosters international hostility and leads the audience, no doubt from boredom, to assault and do grievous bodily harm while watching it. The fact that audiences at the National Theatre rarely break bottles over one another's heads, and that Opera fans seldom knee one another in the groin during the long intervals at Covent Garden, convinces me that theatre is safer than sport.”

“the less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen. It allows an audience to come into a movie theatre and believe I am that person".”

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”