Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.