On his C.B.E., "Being honored by one`s country is even better than winning a Tony Award. But since it comes from Downing Street, I suppose in a sense it is a Tony."
(on Alec Guinness) "He wrote to tell me he had just seen A Passage to India (1984), and as the lights had come up he had vomited in shame at his own performance as Professor Godbole."