Just let the wardrobe do the acting

Once you've been really "bad" in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting