An Actor Is At Most A Poet

People Will Like You Who Never Met You, They Think You're Absolutely Wonderful; And Then People Also Will Hate You, For Reasons That Have Nothing To Do With Any Real Experience With You. People Don't Want To Lose Their Enemies. We Have Favorite Enemies, People We Love To Hate And We Hate To Love. If They Do Something Good, We Don't Like It. I Found Myself Doing That With Ronald Reagan. He Is Anathema To Me. If He Does Something That's Reasonable, I Find My Mind Trying To Find Some Way To Interpret It So That It's Not Reasonable, So That Somewhere It's Jingoist Extremism.

An Actor Must Interpret Life, And In Order To Do So He Must Be Willing To Accept All Experiences That Life Can Offer.

I Put On An Act Sometimes, And People Think I’m Insensitive. Really, It’s Like A Kind Of Armor Because I’m Too Sensitive. If There Are Two Hundred People In A Room And One Of Them Doesn’t Like Me, I’ve Got To Get Out.

Acting Is The Expression Of A Neurotic Impulse. It's A Bum's Life. Quitting Acting, That's The Sign Of Maturity.

Acting, In General, Is Something Most People Think They're Incapable Of, But They Do It From Morning To Night. The Subtlest Acting I've Ever Seen Is By Ordinary People Trying To Show They Feel Something They Don't, Or Trying To Hide Something. It's Something Everyone Learns At An Early Age.