The actor must know that since he, himself, is the instrument, he must play on it to serve the character with the same effortless dexterity with which the violinist makes music on his. Just because he doesn't look like a violin is no reason to assume his techniques should be thought of as less difficult.

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no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

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Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

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The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

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I have disassociated myself from that book.

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One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

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