Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words, we are continually changing the score.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.