I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

I'm interested in villainy.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

Anthony Davis is cool.

I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain unapologetically consumed by it. Be faithful to your gift and very confident in its value.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.