You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

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

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