What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.