I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.