Quotes

If life doesn't have that little bit of danger, you'd better create it. If life hands you that danger, accept it gratefully.

[Of the plays he produced at the Stratford Memorial Theatre] "Some complain that the productions are over-pictorial, others that they are dull, others that they're too long, and others that they've been cut. But the chief complaint seems to be that they can't get in."

The marvellous thing about David Niven was his endless and genuine merriness and lightness of heart. I once said to him, Are you always like this - jokey and buoyant and fun? And he said, As a matter of fact I am, old thing, because life's so miserable that I feel it's one's duty to try and be cheerful and keep spirits up.

I wasn't asked to be a handsome young man in films because I wasn't a handsome young man.