One mustn't allow acting to be like stoc kbroker - you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.