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.

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

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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.

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

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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

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

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

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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

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For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

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