"The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained."

"Sooner or later, we sell out for money."

"We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?"

"Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her."

"The competition is pretty rough these days."

"The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever."

"Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt."

"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."

"We have too many actors for the jobs available."

"In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University."

"And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage."

"I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier."

"I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields."

"Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes."

"I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting."

"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."

"Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country."

"I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company."

"So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award."

"Awards are only a publicity gimmick."

"Museums, I love museums."

"There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them."