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

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.

You think you're an artist; prove it

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

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

In spite of a heavy disguise, a few days' growth on my face, dark glasses, a beret and one of William's jackets that fitted me not at all, as I emerged from a hotel in Lecce, a young fisherman pointed me out to his friends and said "Lavrenche Olivaire." It was not all that amazing; if you're not known in Italy, you're not known anywhere.

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.