My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything

I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act

Without acting I cannot breathe

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word