Without Discipline, There's No Life At All.

The Terrible Thing About Acting In The Theater Is That You Have To Do It At Night.

I Think Most Of The People Involved In Any Art Always Secretly Wonder Whether They Are Really There Because They're Good Or There Because They're Lucky.

We Were Brought Up In The School That Teaches: You Do What The Script Tells You. Deliver The Goods Without Comment. Live It-do It-or Shut Up. After All, The Writer Is What's Important. If The Script Is Good And You Don't Get In Its Way, It Will Come Off Okay. I Never Discussed A Script With Spence [spencer Tracy]; We Just Did It. The Same With Hank [henry Fonda] In On Golden Pond. Naturally And Unconsciously We Joined Into What I Call A Musical Necessity-the Chemistry That Brings Out The Essence Of The Characters And The Work.

You Sell Yourself. The Part That I Sell Is The Creature. The Adorable Part.

I Thought, Can You Think Of Any Really Good Reason Not To Do It? Except That, Oh, I'm So Shy, Or Oh, My Private Life, Or Oh, Are They Going To Find Out How Boring I Am? You Know? And That Was The Only Reason Now, In A Sense, Not To Do Television. Because It Certainly Is A Method Of Expression, Which Has To Be Accepted As These Things Come Along.