Life is enthusiasm, zest.

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

[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.

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

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.

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

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.