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.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.