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

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

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.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!

Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.