When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.