All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

Once in a while, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Life will change for us the moment we decide to change our minds.

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, do something for peace.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.