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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it, there is the almost religious belief that service is everything.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Acting, is not a profession for adults.