[My father] was a lazy man. It was the days of independent incomes, and if you had an independent income you didn't work. You were...n't expected to. I strongly suspect that my father would not have been particularly good at working anyway. He left our house in Torquay every morning and went to his club. He returned, in a cab, for lunch, and in the afternoon went back to the club, played whist all afternoon, and returned to the house in time to dress for dinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and sudd...enly you find--at the age of fifty, say--that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about.... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the ...opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul... is revealed by your actions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Othello or Nora are definite, substantial figures created by the playwright. They can be played well or badly, and they can be "in...terpreted" in one way or another; but they most definitely exist, no matter who plays them or even whether they are played at all. The character in a film, however, lives and dies with the actor. It is not the entity "Othello" interpreted by Robeson or the entity "Nora" interpreted by Duse, it is the entity "Great Garbo" incarnate in a figure called Anna Christie or the entity "Robert Montgomery" incarnate in a murderer who, for all we know or care to know, may forever remain anonymous but will never cease to haunt our memories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »