I Believe One Should Be A Woman

Acting Should Be Bigger Than Life. Scripts Should Be Bigger Than Life. It Should All Be Bigger Than Life.

Without Discipline And Detachment, An Actor Is An Emotional Slob, Spilling His Insides Out. This Abandonment Is Having An Unfortunate Vogue. It Is Tasteless, Formless, Absurd. Without Containment There Is No Art. All This Vomiting And Wheezing And Bursting At The Seams Is No More Great Acting Than The Convulsions Of Raving Maniacs.

Locations Are All Tough, All Miserable. I Never Left The Sound Stage For 18 Years At Warners. We Never Went Outside The Studio, Not Even For Big Scenes.

Women Are The Essential Part Of The Theater But The Writers Are Not Writing About Women. I Think They're Too Perplexed About The Whole Female Situation Probably.

Psychoanalysis. Almost Went Three Times - Almost. Then I Decided What Was Peculiar About Me Was Probably What Made Me Successful. I've Seen Some Very Talented Actors Go Into Analysis And Really Lose It.