Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.