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

There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

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

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

I have to act to live.

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.

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