I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

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.

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

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