Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

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

Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human beings when putting his own passions, his loves, fears, and rages to work in the service of the characters he plays. He will learn to face himself, to hide nothing from himself- and to do so takes AN INSATIABLE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.