Quotes

[on Marlene Dietrich] She has sex but no positive gender. Her masculinity appeals to women and her sexuality to men.

[on Greta Garbo] What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

[on movie critics] A man who knows the way but can't drive a car.

[on John Gielgud] The finest actor on earth, from the neck up.

There has never been an actor of greater gusto than Donald Wolfit. He has the dynamism, energy, bulk and stature, and he joins these together with a sheer relish for resonant words, which splits small theatres as [Enrico Caruso] wine glasses.

The English hoard words like misers; the Irish spend them like sailors.

One thinks of Olivier in terms of other species, of panthers and lions: one thinks of Gielgud in terms of other arts, of ballet and portrait painting.