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

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.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

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.

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

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.