Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

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.

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

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.

The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.

The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.

I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.