Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?