An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

Styling is designing for obsolescence.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.