I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would con…

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. The first time that he came to London when I was in the theatre and my name was in lights for the very first tim…

It seems to me a long way to go just to sit in a non-drinking, non-smoking environment on the offchance your name is called. ... It's as if you are entered int…

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To gi…

Es gibt keine Notlugen; noch nie ist eine Unwahrheit gesprochen worden, die nicht fruh oder spat nachteillige Folgen fur jedermann gehabt hatte.