Awards don't really mean much.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

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

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

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

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

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

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.

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

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

You're going to have Yahoo! and places that don't have rights being much more aggressive in how sports news is covered.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.

There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.

Carry your most important goal in your wallet".

I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire