My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.