[His diary entry after viewing Star Wars (1977) for the first time]: It`s a pretty staggering film as spectacle and technically brilliant. Exciting, very noisy and warm-hearted. The battle scenes at the end go on for five minutes too long, I feel, and som...
He once sent a script back with a polite rejection. The writer came back with, "We tailored it just for you." He simply replied: But no one came to take measurements.
An actor is an interpreter of other men`s words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an h...
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.