"Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money."

"There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much."

"A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell h…"

"The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa."

"Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare."

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"