Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played.

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?