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 is the ability to dream on cue.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

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

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.

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