I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

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!

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 actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

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

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.