You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the lis….

Let yourself become living poetry..

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts..

Don't say anything about this to anybody. Any one would say that I am trying to play the good-natured philosopher. I am neither benefactor nor philos….

There's something Vichy about the French..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great thea….

Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. ….

The autodecrement is not magical..

Andrea Jaeger plays tennis like she's double-parked..

You can't live in history. You've got to build for the future..

Do not call up any that you can not put down..

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth..

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose..

You do understand that you can't force the situation, but in terms of how you edit, you can define that to take the audience along, whether it be a s….

I'm never shaken or stirred..

A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, yo….

You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize..

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself..

We are only what we do, not what we say we are..

I weep at everything..