The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Acting is a strange business; one day it’s there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they’re very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

You’ve got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.