You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.

You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.