I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

Everything that is truly worthwhile - I think passion is involved in your approach to it. No matter what it is.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

I have to act to live.

Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

You think you're an artist; prove it

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.