Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.