Quotes

I've been number two in films for donkey's years.

Noël Coward did do some directing and co-directing. It's just not a polite enough profession to suit him, though.

All my performances are good enough to be seen; I'm not ashamed of anything I've done.

Good God, some of the new young actors say they don't know whether they wanted to be actors or not! I cannot understand this. To me, it is like saying you can't make up your mind whether or not you love a certain woman. If you don't then take a walk. In acting, as in love, there is no place for indifference.

[on Sophia Loren] That's a real working woman. Not like those teenage tots who think once they've been in a picture, they're too important to be gracious enough to their colleagues by being on time.

[on director Carol Reed] Carol doesn't only make films, he lives, breathes, eats and drinks them.

[on Celia Johnson] Celia Johnson was the best actress I've ever worked with. Beneath Celia's Women's Institute gentility there was a most lovable woman and a real trooper.

(On Ryan's Daughter (1970)) Three hours was rather long for a trifling love story.

[on Marlon Brando, 1962] The man is unprofessional and absolutely ridiculous.