Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

It's how you live that really counts

What in the world would we do without our libraries?