There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

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

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.