No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

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

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.

[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.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?