There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

I must be sincere towards what I am. ... Experimenting is the only thing that fills me with enthusiasm. ... It is the only sphere where I feel really honest and sincere.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts.