"I wanted to stop acting. The director was like, 'It looks too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when yo…"

"For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the …"

"It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."

"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms ca…"

"An actor's a guy, who if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening."

"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity."

"The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis."

"Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide someth…"

"If a studio offered to pay me as much to sweep the floor as it did to act, I'd sweep the floor]. There isn't anything…"

"Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say what…"