It's true, I don't like the real world.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!

It's only when you find yourself that you will live authentically

I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

Don't wait for perfect. Don't wait for something to be fully formed in your head to start on it. Just start, and then work it out as you go.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.