You can sit there and have a universal experience, of fear, of anger, of tears, of love, and I discovered that its the audience, really, that is doing the acting.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

Simply put, in film acting, there is before Brando, and there is after Brando. And they are like different worlds.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look …

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write : were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion w…