Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

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

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.

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.