Been Quote by Ian Mckellen

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir…

— Patrick Stewart

If you wanted John Gielgud to cry, he could say, 'Which eye?'

— Peter Hedges

I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up,…

— Charles Dance

I do one thing Gielgud didn't: I play the ukulele.

— Roger Rees

I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to…

— John Logan

To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at…

— Michael Korda

“Claudette Colbert was not Hollywood’s greatest beauty, but her trim little figure, round, kitten-like face, and obviously intelligent good humor made her a bit…

— Eve Golden

They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun,…

— Angela Lansbury

Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when…

— Tom Peters

People would think I wouldn't like Noel Coward. I think he was the original punk in a lot of ways. You know. Saucy. Doing…

— Kathy Burke

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

— Kelly Reilly

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues.…

— Peter De Vries