One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?

There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.