I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.