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.

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

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

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

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

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.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

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.

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

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.

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

Museums, I love museums.

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

We have too many actors for the jobs available.