Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

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.

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

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.