Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

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

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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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All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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

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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 have disassociated myself from that book.

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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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Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

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