We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.