I was asked to-night why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won't. 1. I am not an int...ellectual. Two minutes' talk with Aldous Huxley, William Glock, or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat, drink, smoke, and relax. 4. I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He m...ust do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be a good actor ... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the labor...ious task that has barely just been finished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a go...od actor ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Richard Burton is now my epitaph, my cross, my title, my image. I have achieved a kind of diabolical fame. It has nothing to do wi...th my talents as an actor. That counts for little now. I am the diabolically famous Richard Burton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind..., and a disgrace to our theatrical history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new kind of award has been added--the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all,... or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »