Things are simple when you're going to die.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.

Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.