I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

It must be hard interviewing actors.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

I don’t like to rehearse. And I couldn’t understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!