The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.