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.

You think you're an artist; prove it

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

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

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

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.