I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don’t go.
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.
All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
I’m a bad liar; I don’t know what to say backstage.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.
Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.
I won’t go to England because they won’t let my dog in.
One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.
We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
I have disassociated myself from that book.
Usually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.
Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
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.
Awards don’t really mean much.
I love playing Chekhov. That’s the hardest; that’s why I love it most.