When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.