Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed.