- Himself - Host: The public, thank heavens, never knows the private anguish actors sometimes go through.
- Emlyn Williams: He was one of the people who you could really apply the word genius to. It's a very difficult word to really... when Charles was at his best, well everybody knows that, no other actor could quite do it the way he does it. And of course he was difficult. Anybody like that is difficult. He was a child, he was a brilliantly gifted child, who had this instinct for acting, he had a complex about his appearance, he was a brilliantly natural, instinctive actor but he wanted to rationalise his performances, he wanted to feel that he was governing them...
- Himself - author of 'I, Claudius': Korda was a remarkably good chap. He was cynical but he was real.
- Merle Oberon: I had a motor car accident, and so they cancelled the picture, and Lloyds had to pay out a great deal of money...