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

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

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

I have to act to live.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

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