If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.

To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.