Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

All rhetorical questions are accusations.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.