If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.

[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.

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

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

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Acting, is not a profession for adults.