Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.