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

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.

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.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing.

There's a certain amount of one-way shirt swapping going on.

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

My talent speaks for itself, I ain't gotta answer nobody else's questions. I'm going home, we're gonna have a party!

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

I think music all the time.