Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.