[on Gabriel Pascal]: He came to grief when he tried to direct. He had enormous charm and he tried to be clever, but, unlike Korda, he wasn't a bit clever. He didn't make any money for himself; he was just an old bumbler-on with great charm.

I think a little posterity must always be nice. After I'm dead I'll probably be a cult and they'll have entire seasons of me at the National Film Theatre. Thank God I won't have to watch them all.

[on winning Best Actrss Award, 1958, for 'Separate Tables'] Unless they give some award for acting with one's back to the camera, I don't see how I could have won. Never mind the honor, though I'm sure it's very nice of them. I hope this award means cash. Hard cash.

It's amazing what they give these awards for. All I seemed to do was walk in and out of doors and look over my shoulder at Burt Lancaster. They cut out my two best scenes, you know. I was frightfully cross. - regarding her Oscar-winning work in Separate Tables (1958).

[on Separate Tables (1958)] "We were all English except Burt [Burt Lancaster] and dear Rita Hayworth. She made a jolly good stab at the film, and she was a lovely creature; I have never been large but Rita was so delicately boned she made me feel like a camel! It was a bizarre idea to transport all that was so English to Hollywood, but it was a very good film. I know I won an Oscar for it, but it was always the best part in the play".

The first Oscar I ever saw was on Mr. Shaw's mantelshelf in his home at Ayot St. Lawrence. My first thought on hearing that I had got one was that if the great G.B.S. thought it was respectable then who was I to worry?

"I thought Shaw [George Bernard Shaw] asked all young actresses to do those parts. It never occurred to me that he thought I was something special. He was a real charmer. Once, he wrote that I was playing "Saint Joan" as though I was cataleptic".