Occupation: Actor Birth: February 26, 1920 Death: May 17, 2004
I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt..
Love isn't an opinion, it's a chemical reaction..
So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award..
Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Gover….
Sooner or later, we sell out for money.
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music,….
Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.
I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen..
I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.
I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them i….
Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days..
Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting….
Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes..
I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.
You mustn't take any award so seriously..
Museums, I love museums..
I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.
Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father.