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

The humility to prepare and the self-confidence to bring it off.

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 am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

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.