I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.