It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessa….

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back..

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors..

Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to sta….

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that so….

Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be ki….

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father..

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the s….

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. I….

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a….

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality..

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived.….

Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of h….

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in ….

God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps tha….

They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. I….

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet o….

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am..

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star..

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress.