What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.

My pessimism has never been flabby.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.