I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take ...your courage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only t...hing you can do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to ...do. Off stage we are awful chumps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed ...on the bier.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... you have to have been desperately unhappy before you can play comedy, so that nothing can frighten you any more. And you can't... do tragedy before you know absolute happiness, because having known that, you are safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »