"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 acti…"

"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?"

"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 absolute…"

"Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."

"In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include …"

"There is no thermometer for wants!"

"Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed."