I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a sta….

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring t….

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing..

My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep..

I never regretted what I turned down..

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But ….

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody..

I don't think about going back to the theater..

Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where my mother made her very firs….

We all have levels of performance..

You learn a great deal that you can feed into your craft which gives you the experience that you actually need later on, when you start to get the re….

The theater is magical and addictive..

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me..

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain ope….

It was an extraordinary experience to have backup singers like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never experienced anything quite like it before an….

I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens….

Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing ….

When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and s….

I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be t….

Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines. That's acting. You'….

They're great devotees of Noel Coward in England, of course, he's a favorite son, and so to play Coward in London is such fun, and anyway, the role i….