In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we hav….

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing..

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run..

The most precious things in speech are the pauses..

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator..

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing..

Dead? No excuse for laying off work..

If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose that I hold had no scent, we should know that he is wrong. The defect is in him, not….

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds..

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen..

Acting is the ability to dream on cue..