A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

Acting is happy agony.

Like a wildflower, poetry does not need explanation. It only needs to touch our emotions.

Listen, " Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.

She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Wherever You Are, Be There One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

I don't want realism. I want magic!