- [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.
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