But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

My humor is - was quite different. Mine was "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" and "The World's Greatest Lover" and "Haunted Honeymoon," "The Woman In Red," things - "See No Evil, Hear No Evil." But his was much broader, and I think much funnier, too.

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.