You're Tearing Me Apart!

To My Way Of Thinking, An Actor's Course Is Set Even Before He's Out Of The Cradle.

Being An Actor Is The Loneliest Thing In The World. You Are All Alone With Your Concentration And Imagination, And That's All You Have.

Being A Good Actor Isn't Easy. Being A Man Is Even Harder. I Want To Be Both Before I'm Done.

When An Actor Plays A Scene Exactly The Way A Director Orders, It Isn't Acting. It's Following Instructions. Anyone With The Physical Qualifications Can Do That. So The Director's Task Is Just That – To Direct, To Point The Way. Then The Actor Takes Over. And He Must Be Allowed The Space, The Freedom To Express Himself In The Role. Without That Space, An Actor Is No More Than An Unthinking Robot With A Chest-full Of Push-buttons.

To Me, Acting Is The Most Logical Way For People's Neuroses To Manifest Themselves, In This Great Need We All Have To Express Ourselves.