My Stage Successes Have Provided Me With

I Am Far From Sure When I Am Acting And When I Am Not Or, Should I More Frankly Put It, When I Am Lying And When I Am Not. For What Is Acting But Lying And What Is Good Acting But Convincing Lying?

If I Wasn't An Actor, I Think I'd Have Gone Mad. You Have To Have Extra Voltage, Some Extra Temperament To Reach Certain Heights.

Surely We Have Always Acted; It Is An Instinct Inherent In All Of Us. Some Of Us Are Better At It Than Others, But We All Do It.

The Office Of Drama Is To Exercise, Possibly To Exhaust, Human Emotions. The Purpose Of Comedy Is To Tickle Those Emotions Into An Expression Of Light Relief; Of Tragedy, To Wound Them And Bring The Relief Of Tears. Disgust And Terror Are The Other Points Of The Compass.

I'd Like People To Remember Me For A Diligent Expert Workman. I Think A Poet Is A Workman. I Think Shakespeare Was A Workman. And God's A Workman. I Don't Think There's Anything Better Than A Workman.