Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.