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.

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

I will keep on loving you until eternity comes to make me love you more

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

Artists need to express.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?