"This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it."

“Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget!”

“Only a fool would attack us.”

Source : "Hitler And Stalin: Parallel Lives". Book by Alan Bullock,p. 715, 1993.

“Zounds, Zounds, VI-I-IX!”

“I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.”

“Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.”

Source : "Michael Billington on actors" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.

“Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.”

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

“The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination - we give a form of pulsating art to life itself; we give it to our characters and we give it to our audiences. Nothing, absolutely nothing remains for us save the pleasure of having given pleasure. And yet it is only by this miraculous process that our love grows and our talent is fulfilled and replenished.”

Source : "To the Director and Playwright".