The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

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.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

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

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.