The Gratification Comes In The Doing, Not

Reality Doesn't Have Any Preconceived Ideas. You've Got To Learn How To Smoke The Cigarette, Not Act Smoking The Cigarette. You Need To Drink The Drink, Not Act Drinking The Drink. You've Got To Do Things And Not Show Them.

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.

I Didn't Know What To Do. How Do You Tell An Eight-year-old Boy His Mother's Going To Die? I Tried. In My Own Stumbling Way I Tried To Prepare Jim For It. Nowadays, He Lives In A World We Don't Understand Too Well, The Actor's World. We Don't See Too Much Of Him. But He's A Good Boy, My Jim. A Good Boy, And I'm Very Proud Of Him. Not Easy To Understand, No Sir. He's Not Easy To Understand. But He's All Man, And He'll Make His Mark. Mind You, My Boy Will Make His Mark.

If You’re Not Afraid, If You Take Everything You Are, Everything Worthwhile In You And Direct It At One Goal, One Ultimate Mark, You’ve Got To Get There.

I’m A Serious-minded And Intense Little Devil – Terribly Gauche And So Tense That I Don’t See How People Can Stay In The Same Room As Me. I Know I Couldn’t Tolerate Myself.