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.

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

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

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.

After Arthur sent me away for my own good, it' like my life switched from color to black and white--like the ending of The Wizard of Oz.

What can we do to win these men to Christ?

I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

I think Hamlet, as much as he loves his privacy and is kind of an introvert, he's a very functional introvert. When he has to be out, he can be out with people.

Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.

Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.