We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.