What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

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.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

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

Without acting, I cannot breathe.

Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway.