Acting is a way to explore the human condition and to understand others better.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour.

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

There is no love that’s so right as admiration-based love, and that love should include the instructive dead. Somehow, I got that idea and I lived with it all my life and it’s been very very useful to me.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.