Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

Let your playerhaters be your motivators.

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

What does despair mean to someone who interprets that emotion as a chemical reaction in the brain?

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

There's no limit to what you can accomplish in the world of entertainment. It's all I've ever known since I was 19.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.