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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.
Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
Styling is designing for obsolescence.
I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.
We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.
I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.
The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers.
