The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose that I hold had no scent, we should know that he is wrong. The defect is in him, not the flower. It is the same with the man who says there is no God. It merely means that he is without the capacity to discern His presence.

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

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

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

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

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.