People Are Wrong When They Say Opera

In The First Act, You Get The Audience's Attention - Once You Have It, They Will Repay You In The Second. Play Through The Laughs If You Have To. It Will Only Make The Audience Believe There Are So Many Of Them That They Missed A Few.

The Theatre Should Be Treated With Respect. The Theatre Is A Wonderful Place, A House Of Strange Enchantment, A Temple Of Illusion. What It Most Emphatically Is Not And Never Will Be Is A Scruffy, Ill-lit, Fumed-oak Drill Hall Serving As A Temporary Soap Box For Political Propaganda.

My Philosophy Is As Simple As Ever - Smoking, Drinking, Moderate Sexual Intercourse On A Diminishing Scale, Reading And Writing (not Arithmetic). I Have A Selfish Absorption In The Well-being And Achievement Of Noel Coward.

Star Quality: I Don't Know What It Is, But I've Got It.

I Can't Sing, But I Know How To, Which Is Quite Different.