Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

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!

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.