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

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.