By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

...actors today think that being true is being nice, or being some other "set" thing. That is not the truth. That is your miserable habit of boring everybody to death.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.