Citations

I pick up 'The Times' every morning and if I'm not in the obituary list then I go to work.

[on warning audiences of Zeppelins approaching London during performances of the play Nothing but the Truth] Invariably when I made this announcement, the response would be 'Go on with the bloody play.' Not one person left the theater in those days. That certainly showed what London playgoers thought of 'Nothing but the Truth,' didn't it?

[on the play Bulldog Drummond, in which he played the title character] I'd have said to myself that there is no play and there isn't. The thing is not to be taken seriously. If there had been need of a curtain speech at the opening I should not have referred to 'Bull Dog Drummond' as a play, but as an entertainment, and that is what we try to make it. My chief fear on the opening night was that the audience might not take it as we intended. We endeavored to play it as a joke, we hoped the audience would take it as a joke, and, fortunately, we think they took it exactly in this spirit. And so did the critics.