Dirk Bogarde

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

— Dirk Bogarde

The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost…

— Dirk Bogarde

“every shadow of a thought or doubt.. crossed his face with the clarity of cloud shadows racing across the fields.”

— Dirk Bogarde

The camera can photograph thought.

— Dirk Bogarde

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

— Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

— Dirk Bogarde

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

— Dirk Bogarde

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

— Dirk Bogarde