"After all we [have] each of us only eight notes to work upon."

"The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is …"

"I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments – astonished at the wonderful pow…"

"Goss and Bennett…trained him to make Europe yawn; and he took advantage of their training to make London and New York…"

"We shall never know of the numbers of "mute and inglorious Miltons" who failed because the place and time were not re…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"